Local sources reported that two high-ranking military commanders were killed and wounded during clashes at the headquarters of the UAE-backed Security Belt Forces in Al-Dhalea Governorate, southern Yemen.
These sources said that Walid al-Dami, deputy commander of the security belt forces in the governorate, and Muhammad al-Shobaji, commander of the Sixth Resistance Brigade, were killed in the clashes that erupted yesterday evening, Friday, after detainees were brought from one of the districts to the security belt headquarters in the governorate.
Al-Dhalea governorate is the main stronghold of the Southern Transitional Council supported by the UAE, to which most of its leaders belong, most notably Aidarous Al-Zubaidi, the head of the council.
And at the end of last March, unidentified gunmen assassinated, in Aden, southern Yemen, Colonel Karam al-Mashriqi, commander of the Eighth Sector of the Security Belt Forces.
Aden has been under the control of the Abu Dhabi-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) since August 2019, and this city witnesses from time to time clashes between its conflicting forces.