Suicide attacks target Yemeni forces-residents, officals

ADEN - Reuters

Yemeni soldiers gather at the site where two suicide bombers blew up a vehicle at an elite Republican Guard camp in Bayda, 170 kilometres (105 miles) southwest of Sanaa, on March 3, 2012. AFP photo

Suicide bombers linked to al Qaeda detonated two vehicles laden with explosives at two military outposts outside the southern Yemeni city of Zinjibar on Sunday, killing at least six soldiers, local officials and residents said.

They said the militants from a group called Ansar al-Shariaa, which controls the city surrounded by Yemeni soldiers, had also launched an attack on the two positions and taken a number of soldiers prisoner.