Yemeni tribesmen on Saturday (February 4th) killed 13 al-Qaeda fighters who had slipped back into a southern town hours after pulling out in the face of street protests, AFP reported.
The extremists had reemerged during the night and sought to take control of public buildings in the Abyan province town of Loder, a security official said.
They met with fierce resistance from armed residents and withdrew after gun battles lasting two hours.
Loder was one of three towns in Abyan province that al-Qaeda fighters entered on Thursday . They withdrew from two of them on Friday in the face of warnings of resistance from local tribes.
