The death of a Qaida prince in Al-Mahfad.. Southern forces confront ambushes and bombs

English - Monday 17 October 2022 الساعة 06:42 pm
Al-Mahfad, NewsYemen, Special:

Security sources in Al-Mahfad district, Abyan governorate, said that one of the princes of al-Qaeda and its prominent leaders was killed as a result of a qualitative operation carried out by the southern forces participating in the operation to purify the district.

The sources confirmed that the leader of Al-Qaeda and the media guidance official, nicknamed "Abu Al-Omair Al-Baydani", was killed in a tracking and purification operation carried out by the southern forces in Al-Mahfad.  It explained that the forces raided one of the dens in which terrorist elements are holed up in the suburbs of Al-Mahfad, before clashes erupted with the elements there, which led to the death of the terrorist leader and the arrest of another and the escape of the rest of his escorts.

The forces began raiding sites, homes and villages to which al-Qaeda militants had fled in the districts of Al-Mahfad and Mudiyah.  Those bombs caused the martyrdom of a number of soldiers, as happened last week in Omran and Al-Mahfad, and the organization announced its responsibility for the bombings, threatening more of them, considering this to be the next strategy.

NewsYemen sources said that after Omran's bombing last week, which killed four soldiers and wounded three others, the forces were able to besiege the perpetrators and arrest him, who are close to the leader of al-Qaeda in the province, "Yousef al-Qaida."

The arrested elements admitted that other elements linked to Al-Qaeda were planting explosives in one of the villages of the Mudiyah district.

After the confession, the southern forces were able to arrest the elements that were exposed by the perpetrators of the Omran operation, after they raided a house they were hiding in in the village of "Al-Baqira" located between the city of Mudiyah and Wadi Omaran, and they seized the entire cell.

In Al-Mahfad district, the southern forces managed to seize a number of fugitive elements in the villages of the district, who were unable to escape with the leaders of the organization and many of its members who fled towards Al-Bayda governorate and the mountains of Jishan District.

Sources in the southern forces confirmed the arrest of a number of members in villages near the city of Al-Mahfad in connection with the recent bombings that killed a number of soldiers.

The sources confirmed that the forces are still monitoring all the movements of the elements in the directorate and are tracking them, and they will be seized, the directorate secured and stability is restored.