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Blast kills two at suspected Qaeda camp in south Yemen
Al-Maajala (AFP) Dec 21, 2009 Two people were killed and nine wounded on Monday in two explosions at the site of a suspected Al-Qaeda training camp in southern Yemen which was hit by an air strike last week that also killed 49 civilians. The two explosions went off after a protest by thousands of southern tribesmen demanding an investigation into the attack in the village of al-Maajala, in Abyan province, a local authority official said. Dozens of protesters had visited the site to inspect the aftermath of the raids, when the two explosions took place, the official told AFP requesting anonymity. The source of the explosion was not immediately clear, but the provincial governor was quick to blame the militants. "The Al-Qaeda terrorists mined the ground targeted in Thursday's raid... in the expectation that the security forces would inspect the site as part of their investigation," Ahmed al-Muyasari told the official Saba news agency. He said two of the nine people wounded in the blasts were in a serious condition. Thursday's air raid killed 23 children and 17 women, a local official and tribal sources said. The government said it targeted a suspected Al-Qaeda training camp killing around 30 militants, some of them foreigners. The interior and defence ministers as well as the vice premier for security affairs had been due to appear before parliament on Monday to take questions about the raid but they failed to turn up. Share This Article With Planet Earth
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