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Ten soldiers have been killed by fighters who attacked three military vehicles in southern Yemen, security officials say.
The army patrol cars were attacked on Friday in Lawdar, a city in the province of Abyan where several military raids against suspected fighters took place last year.
The fighters used rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns and two military vehicles were burned in the attack.
The army vehicles had been escorting a lorry carrying food supplies to military bases in the area.
Mostafa Ahmed, the Lawdar health department chief, confirmed to the AFP news agency that the bodies of five soldiers were taken into a hospital morgue. He also said that a civilian who was passing by at the time was wounded in the attack.
In November, a day after the state kicked off a regional soccer cup, a roadside bomb in Lawdar killed one soldier and wounded two others riding in a military vehicle.
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Yemeni soldiers stand guard at the entrance of the southern city of Abyan on November 25, 2010.
Al-Jazeera
