Ambush kills police chief, soldier in Yemen

An ambush carried out by separatists has claimed the lives of a senior police chief and a soldier in Yemen's southern province of Dhale.

According to Yemen's Defense Ministry, three other people, including an agriculture ministry official, were also injured in the attack.

"Ali Ahmed al-Halimi, the Director of Criminal Investigations in Dhaleh, was killed instantly in an attack that also wounded three," two of them soldiers and an agriculture ministry official, the ministry said in its website on Friday.

The attack comes after the separatist leader Tareq al-Fadhli's call for southern Yemenis to fight for independence.

Many in southern Yemen maintain that they have been deprived of financial aid by northern Yemenis.

The South unified with the North in 1994 following a civil war.

The southern city of Dhaleh is located about 100 kilometers (62 miles) north of Aden.

Source: PressTV.
Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=119063§ionid=351020206.