'7 Qaeda suspects' killed in Yemen drone strike

January 24, 2013 04:01

Seven suspected Al Qaeda members, including two Saudis, were killed in a US drone attack in a village east of the Yemeni capital, a security source said.

"The drone targeted a vehicle killing the seven people on board" in Jahana, a village in the Khawlan tribal region, 30 kilometres from Sanaa, the source told AFP.

He said the vehicle was headed for Sanaa with two Saudis among the Al-Qaeda suspects on board.

Four missiles targeted the vehicle on the road link Marib province with the capital, a tribal source said, giving a death toll of six.

Amid an escalation in such attacks, five suspected Al Qaeda militants were killed in a US drone strike on Tuesday near the Saudi border north of the Yemeni capital, tribal sources and witnesses said.

And an air raid northeast of Sanaa on Monday killed four Al Qaeda suspects, Yemen's interior ministry said. Last Saturday, air raids attributed to a US drone killed nine suspected members of the group.

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