Leader of Popular Resistance Committees killed

17/10/2012 -


Alsahwah.net- Leader of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) that backed the Yemeni army against al-Qaeda was killed in a traffic accident on Wednesday, one day after three members of PRC  were killed in a car bombing.

local sources said that Mohammad al-Aidros was killed while he was en route to Aden, pointing out that one of his escorts were killed and seven more were wounded.  

Aidros escaped an assassination attmpet in late September as a bomber exploded himself in Lawdar of Abyan.

Ansar al-Shariah, an al-Qaeda-linked group, targeted a number of Yemeni military commanders and intelligence officers, and kidnapped foreigners including a Saudi diplomat and Swiss teacher from Aden.