Sana’a, Aug 30 (IANS) Unidentified gunmen shot dead two officials in Yemen’s southern province of Lahj Friday, a security official said. “An official of the General People Congress party and another official of Lahj local government were gunned down by masked attackers riding a motorbike when they were traveling toward the neighbouring southern province of Aden,” a local security official told Xinhua. Yemeni military officials blamed militants of the Yemen-based Al Qaida offshoot for a series of assassinations and armed attacks, mostly in the country’s southern parts.
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