{"id":21281,"date":"2013-01-17T09:51:50","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T08:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/2013\/01\/17\/284044\/yemeni-security-official-assassinated\/"},"modified":"2013-01-17T09:51:50","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T08:51:50","slug":"yemeni-security-official-assassinated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/yemeni-security-official-assassinated\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Yemeni security official assassinated\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"ctl00_body_spnDetail\">Yemeni soldiers man a checkpoint at the entrance to the capital Sana\u2019a. (File photo)<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"divDetailBody\">\n<p>Unknown gunmen have shot dead a top Yemeni security official in the western province of Dhamar, a report says.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, armed assailants on a motorbike attacked the security official, Saba news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo gunmen on a motorbike opened gunfire on Colonel (Abdullah) al-Mushki killing him immediately,\u201d a security official told Saba.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cSecurity services are carrying out vast investigations to hunt down the criminals behind this crime which carries the fingerprints of al-Qaeda,\u201d added the official, whose name was not mentioned in the report.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nA similar attack was carried out on December 29, 2012, when two armed men killed Lieutenant Colonel Mutei Baqatyan in the city of Mukalla, in southern Yemen.<\/p>\n<p>On December 18, the military intelligence chief of Yemen\u2019s southeastern province of Hadramout, Colonel Mohammed Hadiq escaped an assassination attempt.<\/p>\n<p>Yemeni security forces frequently come under attack by gunmen especially in the southern and eastern parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p>SAB\/HSN<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span>Yemeni soldiers man a checkpoint at the entrance to the capital Sana&rsquo;a. (File photo)<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Unknown gunmen have shot dead a top Yemeni security official in the western province of Dhamar, a report says.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, armed assailants on a motorbike attacked the security official, Saba news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Two gunmen on a motorbike opened gunfire on Colonel (Abdullah) al-Mushki killing him immediately,&rdquo; a security official told Saba.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;Security services are carrying out vast investigations to hunt down the criminals behind this crime which carries the fingerprints of al-Qaeda,&rdquo; added the official, whose name was not mentioned in the report.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nA similar attack was carried out on December 29, 2012, when two armed men killed Lieutenant Colonel Mutei Baqatyan in the city of Mukalla, in southern Yemen.<\/p>\n<p>On December 18, the military intelligence chief of Yemen&rsquo;s southeastern province of Hadramout, Colonel Mohammed Hadiq escaped an assassination attempt.<\/p>\n<p>Yemeni security forces frequently come under attack by gunmen especially in the southern and eastern parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p>SAB\/HSN<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21281","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}