Ansar Al-Sharia issued a new statement the ongoing situation in Lawdar stating that there was a partial storming on locations for the militants of the Committees conducted by its fighters led resulted in dead and wounded.
They clarified in their statement that ‘they used in the attack a tank and an armored war vehicle along with infantry fighters who advanced towards the city and the tank shelled fiercely the barricades of the Committees which resulted in killing some of them like Mohammed Ja’abal the former general director of the Lawdar district and several others were injured including Abdulrab Shuhat and some of his escorts’.
The statement also said that the Ansar Al-Sharia fighters have ‘succeeded in repelling an attack of groups from the fighters of the Committees and army who tried to circumvent their locations from one of the smuggling routes but the fighters of Ansar Al-Sharia clashed with them in a battle that resulted in dead and wounded in the ranks of these groups and escape of those who remained of them and one of their tanks damaged after it was hit by a B-10 gun’.
They also mentioned that ‘two of the mujahidin were killed today, one of them in the clashes with the Committees in Lawdar and the other from his wounds, so their deaths for three days rise to 7, while the number of wounded rise to 23 after 7 of them were wounded in the clashes of today’.
In a related development, Ansar Al-Sharia confirmed the aerial bombardment on the city of Al-Ain today targeting a commercial warehouse for one of the locals by the Saudi warplanes, but it there were no dead or wounded among its fighters, and they added that their fighters have shelled the 111th brigade with mortar and B-10 guns with resulted in dead and wounded including a senior officer.
Also in a related context, Ansar Al-Sharia denied the news about the capture of 10 of their fighters by the Committees, and they challenged the Committees to show one picture of these alleged captives, describing them that they are only rumors aimed to cover up what it called the collapsed morale of the forces of the army and the Popular Committees.
Ansar Al-Sharia also mentioned that the American warplanes shelled fiercely near a post of Ansar Al-Sharia near the city of Shuqrah in Abyan but there were no loses.
Source: al-tagheer.net
