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Sana'a: A new Al Qaida cell with terror plans was discovered in Mukalla, Hadhramout only three days after five Al Qaida operatives were killed and two others injured and arrested in neighbouring Tareem, officials said on Friday.
One member of the new cell was arrested and most of the others were identified after raiding the place where the group was hiding in Al Dawajen area nearby Fawha in Mukalla city, east of Yemen, said the governor of Hadhramout, Salem Al Khambashi.
Weapons
"The members of the cell, which was planning to carry out terrorist acts inside and outside the province, were identified and full information about each one of them was collected, and security men are doing their best now to arrest them," said Al Khambashi.
In the hideout of the group, security men found a quantity of weapons, ammunition, explosives, mines, hand grenades, and women's clothes to be used as a disguise, the official said.
A car was also found in the place of the group which is believed to have used the same car for firing mortars on security men inside Mukalla city last Friday. No casualties were reported in that attack.
The governor also said that many people were put in custody for suspicion of helping and providing facilities to such terrorist groups.
Local sources in Mukalla, however, said that the failed attack of August 8 in Mukalla city was the main reason behind discovering the Tareem cell whose five members were killed and two others injured and arrested on August 11.
Driver
The sources said that security men secretly traced the car until the discovery of the hideout of the Tareem cell.
The driver of the car, who implemented the failed attack, was Mohammad Saeed Ba Owaidhan, one of the two men who were injured in the Tareem cell.
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