Three soldiers and two insurgents were killed Saturday in a gunbattle in south-eastern Yemen that began when gunmen attacked a security checkpoint, a security official said, DPA reported.
Six soldiers were injured in the fighting in Rada'a, 150 kilometres south-east of the capital, Sana'a, the unnamed official told the government-run website September 6.
President Abdu Rabo Mansour Hadi, who took office more than a year ago, has vowed to fight al-Qaeda until the group is uprooted from the impoverished Arabian Peninsula country.
In mid-2012, the army, backed by US drones, launched a high-profile campaign against militants with suspected links to al-Qaeda.
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