SANAA, March 6: Yemeni forces have recaptured three Al Qaeda members who were part of a group that tunnelled out of jail in the Arab country last month, a government official said on Monday.

“Authorities arrested three of the Al Qaeda escapees in Sanaa on Sunday,” the official told Reuters. He gave no further detail of their identities.

Last month, President Ali Abdullah Saleh said three other Al Qaeda militants — part of a group of 23 inmates who broke out of jail — had surrendered to authorities.

Saleh had told al-Hayat newspaper that security forces were also in contact with other fugitives among the group of 23 militants that escaped from a Sanaa jail in February.—Reuters