A Yemeni security officer named as Ali Khanbash survived an assassination attempt at his home in Zinjibar yesterday, al-Sahwa reports. Another person was injured.

It was the fourth such attack in the southern Abyan province in the space of a month. On July 3, an army officer was found shot dead in the Khanfar district. On July 1, an intelligence officer was shot dead by two men on a motorcycle. In June, a former intelligence director for Abyan province was shot dead as he left a mosque.

Posted by Brian Whitaker, 7 July 2010.