Three people Killed in Zabid City

By Fatik Al-Rodaini

Sana'a, May 1, 2011- At least three people, including a soldier, were killed and another was arrested in Yemen's eastern province of Al-Hodeida.

Local sources in Zabid district said that suspected Al-Qaeda militants threw a bomb toward a governmental patrol vehicle intercepted their car in their way to Al-Hodeida province with heavy weapons, killing the wanted man, Adel Al-Awelqi and two others among them a soldier.

The sources said that Yemen's security forces arrested Ali Al-Areqi a member of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, AQAP.