At least five government soldiers and three suspected al-Qaeda terrorists have been killed in a fierce shootout between Yemen's army and a group of terrorists in the country’s southern port city of Aden.
"The clashes between the army and about 30 well-armed men took place in Mansoura district in Aden, near a pro-independence protest camp, leaving eight people killed," Colonel Khaled al-Gharbany, a military official, said on Thursday evening, Press TV reported.
He added, "The clashes erupted as the militants attempted to take control over an army site located near the camp."
Al-Gharbany further noted that unidentified attackers are still besieging the military site, while army reinforcements have arrived at the scene.
The development comes a day after five soldiers lost their lives and several others sustained injuries, when a bomb explosion struck a military base in Yemen’s central province of al-Bayda
