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SANAA, July 1 (KUNA) -- Yemeni law enforcement agencies said Friday evening
that they could unveil the identity of the fourth corpse of Al-Qaeda elements
who managed to escape from Al-Mukalla prison in the eastern governorate of
Hadhramaut on June 22.
The Ministry of Defense said, in a statement published on its website, it
has identified the corpse which had been found at Al-Ghalila area, noting the
dead person name was Wajdi Al-Marfadi, and the body was remanded in custody
pending further investigations.
The Ministry of Interior said earlier that, "63 of Al-Qaeda elements who
were imprisoned at Al-Mukalla jail with varying prison terms against some of
them, along with others who were still standing for trial, have escaped
through digging a 35-meter tunnel, then they killed a prison guard."
It added that, "security bodies tracked the escapees, and consquently two
of them have been nabbed, while three others have been killed after resisting
the security forces, their names are Sultan Ali Suleiman, Said Nayef Bin
Sankar, and Rawi Haman Bin Salem Bin Saad Al-Sairi who had death sentences
against them on Tarim terror cell."
It also noted that, "Director of the Al-Mukalla Central Jail has been
suspended from work along with his deputy and number of police personnel
pending further investigations into the jailbreak."
The preliminary interrogations which have been conducted with those who
were arrested of the escapee inmates pointed out that, "they dug a 35-meter
tunnel inside one of the prison wards," the ministry said, noting that, "the
digging process took some 25 days."
Taking a different tack, press sources said that a woman has been killed
along with her baby during the artillery bombardment this evening on Arhab
district, northern of the capital city of Sanaa.
The same website said that one the houses at "Salman" village has been
subjected to bombing in what caused the death the woman along with her
one-year child.
The artillery bombardment renewed this noon against some villages of the
Arhab district by the brigades of the Republican Guard stationed there.
Arhab tribe called on Yemeni Vice-President Abdrabbu Mansour Hadi, who
currently carries out the President's tasks, to stymie the Republican Guard
attacks which badly affected their villages, and caused the death of 20
persons, and the injury of 64 others with thirty two of them being badly
wounded, besides the kidnapping of 16 persons. (end)
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