At least six Yemeni soldiers guarding a foreign oil company were killed on Sunday when a group of al-Qaida gunmen attempted to raid the oil company in the southern Yemeni province of Shabwa, a provincial security official told Xinhua.
The security official in Ataq, the capital city of Shabwa, told Xinhua on condition of anonymity that a group of al-Qaida gunmen raided Sunday evening the Yemeni security guards of an Austrian oil company located at al-Akla area in the southeast province of Shabwa.
"Nearly ten terrorists wearing Afghani-style clothes equipped with heavy machine guns on a vehicle approached the wall of the Austrian oil company, killing at least six security soldiers and wounding dozens of others," the official said.