SANAA, Feb 3: Twenty-three suspected Al Qaeda members broke out of a prison in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Friday. A website quoted unnamed sources as saying the group escaped from a central prison run by the state security forces ‘in the past few hours’.
The website, affiliated with Yemen’s armed forces, did not give further details and Yemeni officials were not immediately available to comment.
The poor country has cracked down on Al Qaeda-linked militants following attacks at home, including the bombing in 2000 of the US warship Cole and an attack in 2002 on the French supertanker Limburg.
