Almotamar.net - Gunmen killed 20 Yemeni soldiers in a dawn attack on a checkpoint Monday, most of them in their sleep, in the latest in a wave of deadly violence blamed on Al-Qaeda.
"Twenty soldiers were killed in the armed attack on an army checkpoint, 135 kilometres (85 miles) east of the provincial capital Mukalla, the official Saba news agency reported.
The assailants drove up to the checkpoint in a convoy of vehicles, raking the soldiers on duty with automatic weapons before hurling grenades at an adjacent tent where the majority of the contingent were asleep, a military source told AFP.
The attack "bore all the hallmarks of Al-Qaeda," the source added.