Sanaa, Apr. 14 (Xinhua-ANI): Al-Qaeda militants killed a Yemeni counter-terrorism officer in Yemen's southern province of Hadramout late Saturday, an Interior Ministry official told Xinhua on Sunday.
"Two al-Qaeda gunmen on a motorbike shot dead assistant director of the criminal investigations Abdel Kader Hazza, who is also in charge of a counter-terrorism unit in Shiher town of Hadramout," the official said on condition of anonymity.
Yemeni security services have repeatedly blamed militants of the Yemen-based al-Qaeda offshoot for a series of assassination attacks, mostly in the country's southern regions.
The Yemen-based al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), which emerged in January 2009, is considered the most strategic threat to the Yemeni government and its neighboring oil-rich Saudi Arabia.
The AQAP underscores the challenges faced by Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, who came to power after winning support from major Yemeni political forces, the United States and Saudi Arabia in February 2012.
Hadi is tasked with restoring security and stability to Yemen and putting an end to growing influence of al-Qaeda that also threatens daily oil shipping routes in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. (Xinhua-ANI)
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