ADEN — A gunman killed a senior Yemeni army officer in Aden on Monday, as violence in the southern port city, military sources said.
The gunman, who was on the back of a motorcycle, killed General Abedrabbo Hussein as he was leaving his home in the Sheikh Othman district of the city, the sources said.
Hussein was commander of the 15th Infantry Brigade which operates in Abyan province, west of Aden, where Al-Qaeda has seized several large towns in recent weeks.
President Abdrabbu Mansour Hadi’s internationally recognized government declared Aden the country’s provisional capital last March, after Shiite Houthi rebels and their allies drove it out of Sanaa and much of northern Yemen. Al-Qaeda and the Daesh group have stepped up attacks in the city. — AFP
