US terror drones, Yemeni army kill 23
About two dozen people have been killed in attacks by the Yemeni army and US assassination drones in southern and eastern Yemen. - The Yemeni Defense Ministry said on Monday that the army shelled "suspected militants" in the southern province of Abyan. The attack occurred near the city of Loder late on Sunday, killing 13 people. At least three others were killed in an airstrike on several vehicles in a remote desert region in the eastern province of Marib, the Yemeni Defense Ministry said. Also on Sunday, a strike by a US assassination drone killed three people in the southern province of Shabwa. Local sources said that four more people lost their lives when a Yemeni jet attacked their vehicles in Loder. About 275 people have been killed in fighting and airstrikes in southern Yemen over the past two weeks.