Airstrikes kill 7 al-Qaeda suspects in Yemen

Four separate airstrikes killed at least seven suspected al-Qaeda elements in Yemen on Thursday (March 2nd), AFP reported.

A dawn strike targeted the home of a known al-Qaeda element in the Yashbum Valley in the southern province of Shabwa, a provincial security official said.

Four suspected militants who had been standing outside the house were killed, he said.

A second strike, on al-Qayfa in Baida province, further north, killed three suspected al-Qaeda elements, a local official and a tribal chief said.

A third strike targeted extremists in the Sawmaa district of the province, the local official said.

And a fourth targeted an al-Qaeda position east of Shaqra in the southern province of Abyan, a security source said. Al-Qaeda briefly overran Shaqra early last month.

There was no immediate word of any casualties in the Sawmaa and Shaqra strikes.

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