Two Yemeni soldiers escorting UN convoy killed in ambush

SANAA, 11 December 2022, (TON): The UN said “two troops from Yemen’s pro-government forces were killed in an armed ambush on a UN convoy in eastern Yemen.”

According to a statement from the UN’s International Office of Migration spokeswoman, the two soldiers were killed while escorting a convoy traveling west from Seiyun to Marib. No IOM staff, who were on an unspecified humanitarian mission, were injured in the attack, it said.

No further details about the Friday incident were given.

A tribal leader from the area and a UN official said the ambush took place near the town of Al-Abr, in Yemen’s eastern Hadramout province.

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