SABOTAGE ACTS IN SOUTHERN PROVINCES CONTINUED

LAHJ, Feb. 07 (Saba) - Separatists of the so-called Southern
Movement are continuing their outlaw acts in al-Hota city of Lahj
province, southern Yemen, Defense Ministry website, 26sep.net,
reported on Sunday.

The website quoted local sources as saying that the separatists have
perpetrated several terrorist acts targeting a number of citizens
and their properties, such as robbing and setting fire to some
commercial stores and stalls, burning wheels and preventing traffic
in al-Hota main road.

Same sources added that the police have dispersed the separatists,
who responded by shooting fire and wounded a policeman.

In related news, separatists have exploded a bomb near of National
Bank branch in Dalei province but no casualties were reported.

Police is hunting the perpetrators, who have escaped, according to a
security source in the province.

In Hadramout province, police have apprehended three outlaw
elements, aged 20 - 32, having a number of secession flags and
currencies as well as documents instigating the secession and
prejudicing Yemen's unity, Interior Ministry has reported.

The arrestees have been involved previously in riots and inciting
people to stage unlicensed demonstrations, the ministry added.

North and South Yemen were reunited in 1990.

In 1994, southern leaders announced the secession of the south and
battled northern forces for 10 weeks in a civil war that ended in
their defeat.

MD/AF