At least 14 soldiers and 12 operatives of al-Qaeda were killed early on Friday when suicide bombers attacked a military base in south Yemen, military sources and local residents said.
The attack started at dawn when five suicide bombers infiltrated the base about five miles east of Shuqrah in the southern province of Abyan, military sources said.
Two suicide bombers blew themselves up and the three others were killed in clashes with the government forces in the 115th Brigade command building.
A second group of al-Qaeda operatives aided the attackers by firing at the base, the sources said.