US Drone strike kills four al Qaida members in Yemen
A suspected US drone has killed four alleged al Qaida members in a volatile eastern province of Yemen, security officials said today.
The officials said the drone fired a missile which hit a car carrying the four men in the al-Arqeen district of Marib province, setting it on fire and killing all of them.
One of the dead is believed to be Saleh Jouti, a senior al Qaida member.
The strike is the fourth in less than two weeks. Three similar attacks have hit cars belonging to alleged al Qaida figures in southern Yemen.
Washington considers al Qaida’s Yemeni branch one of the world’s most dangerous terrorist groups.
The United States has also ordered its citizens and non-emergency government staff to leave Yemen, with the State Department saying the security threat level there is now extremely high.
