Suspected al Qaeda gunmen kill two officers in southern Yemen

Suspected al Qaeda militants shot dead two senior officers in Yemen's security services on Friday, security sources said, in the latest of a wave of such attacks.
Colonel Omar Rabie Ben Amr, who headed what is known as the political security apparatus at a border checkpoint with Saudi Arabia, was shot dead as he left a mosque after Friday prayers in al-Qoton area of Hadramout.

source reuters.com