ABYAN, Oct. 31 (YPA) – At least five personnel from the Saudi-backed “Dera Al-Watan” forces were killed and two others wounded on Saturday in an armed ambush targeting their military vehicle in Al-Mahfad District, east of Yemen’s southern Abyan Governorate.

According to a local source, unidentified gunmen carried out the armed attack as the vehicle was passing through the “Day’man” area in Al-Mahfad, leaving five recruits dead and two injured.

The source added that the assailants looted the military vehicle and the recruits’ weapons before fleeing to an unknown destination. The identity of the perpetrators remains unclear.

YPA