Posted - June 2, 2013 22:21:03
Xinhua
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Xing Yihang CRI English com
A suicide car bomb went off at a military checkpoint near Yemen's
Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) plant in Balhaf port in the southeastern
province of Shabwa on Sunday, killing at least nine soldiers, officials
told Xinhua.
A security official at the LNG plant in Balhaf told Xinhua by phone
that the suicide bomber exploded his car at the gate of the LNG
facility, killing nine soldiers.
The attack took place on a coastal road leading to the LNG plant, the
official said on condition of anonymity, adding that " the car bombing
was followed by a short period of shooting by attackers of the al-Qaida
militants on another vehicle."
He said that al-Qaida attackers on another car, who opened fire at
the soldiers after the car bomb went off, managed to flee the scene.
"The explosion rocked the whole Balhaf port. However, there was no
damage at the LNG plant except the gate and security facilities of the
plant," he added.
An official at the interior ministry in capital Sanaa also told
Xinhua earlier that the suicide car bombing left at least "five soldiers
dead and several others injured."
Both officials declined to provide further details, and officials of the LNG headquarters in Sanaa refused to comment.
Yemen LNG's largest export plant at Balhaf opened in 2009 and is led by French oil company Total.
The facility terminal has two production trains with a capacity of
6.7 million tonnes per year. The terminal's export pipelines have been
frequently attacked since the eruption of protests against former
President Ali Abdullah Saleh in 2011.
Gas and oil products account for over 90 percent of Yemen's exports.
The Yemeni government has been waging crackdown on the al-Qaida
hideouts in Shabwa and neighboring provinces of Abyan and Hadramout
since 2011.
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