Deadly attack hits Yemen convoy

Armed men have ambushed a military convoy in the mountainous Abyan province in southern Yemen, killing three soldiers and injuring at least two. The convoy of security forces was heading east from Zinjibar, Abyan's provincial capital, when it came under attack on Saturday. The air force responded by bombing the attackers to give the convoy cover to continue its journey to the town of Mudia, according to a security official. Clashes between the army and "terrorist elements involved in the ambush" left several dead and wounded among the attackers, the defense ministry's website, 26sep.net, said. "We don't know exactly who was behind the attack but we have to take into account that the area is known for the presence of two forces, al-Qaeda fighters and the separatists of the south who would like to break away from the rest of Yemen," Al Jazeera's Hashem Ahelbarra, reporting from the capital, Sanaa, said.