Sana'a, Yemen - A suspected member of al-Qaeda was killed
Sunday when an explosive device he was making went off accidentally
in southern Yemen, the defence ministry said.
The suspect, identified as Anwar Muhammed al-Taghshi, died
instantly as the bomb exploded in his hideout in the al-Wadhea
district of the southern province of Abyan, the ministry said in a
statement.
It said al-Taghshi was on the list of most wanted al-Qaeda members
sought by police in Yemen.
The suspect 'was preparing the bomb to use it in a terrorist
operation when it exploded and killed him instantly,' the statement
said.
Abyan, some 70 kilometres east of the southern port city of Aden,
is one of the strongholds of al-Qaeda and other Yemeni Jihadist
groups. Last March, about 70 suspected members of terrorist groups
were arrested in a crackdown in Abyan.
Separately, a suspected al-Qaeda member linked to a suicide attack
on South Korean police in Sana'a in March, was arrested, the interior
ministry said Sunday.
The 22-year-old suspect, identified as AM al-Ameri, was captured
in the Red Sea port city of Houdieda two days ago, the ministry said
in a statement.
It said al-Ameri had planned the attack, with the suicide bomber
Khaled Abdullah al-Dhayanion, on a convoy carrying the South Koreans
near Sana'a International Airport on March 18. No one was wounded.
The attack took place three days after a similar suicide bombing
killed four South Korean tourists and a Yemeni tour guide in the
south-eastern Yemeni province of Hadhramout.
An al-Qaeda wing in Yemen claimed responsibility for the two
suicide attacks.
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