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Intelligence officer gunned down in southern Yemen
Jul 1, 2010, 21:14 GMT
Sana'a, Yemen - Two gunmen believed to be members of a separatist movement on Thursday shot dead an intelligence officer in southern Yemen, where separatist violence is escalating, security sources said.
The sources said two men riding a motorbike opened fire at Colonel Saleh Amzin in front of his house in Zinjebar, the provincial capital of Abyan province, and fled the scene.
Another member of the intelligence services accompanying Amzin was injured in the attack and was rushed to a nearby hospital, the sources said.
A manhunt for the assailants was underway, they said.
Zinjebar is one of the strongholds of the Southern Movement, an umbrella of southern groups that call for the south of Yemen to secede from the north claiming that the central government is discriminating against southerners.
South and north Yemens were united in 1990.
The slain officer was the fourth to be killed in attacks targeting security officials in Abyan in the past few weeks, according to police officials.
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