The General Command of the Security Belt Forces today, Wednesday, mourned the martyrdom of Captain Salem Ali Sal’an, Commander of the Security Belt, Shaqra Sector, and the wounding of eight of his companions, after they were targeted with an explosive device planted by members of the terrorist Al-Qaeda organization, on one of the trees next to the main line near the junction. Urmah, east of Mudiyah District, Abyan Governorate.

The Security Belt Command said in a statement that the martyrdom of the heroic leader Sal’an comes as part of the enormous and great sacrifices made by the southern armed security and military forces, in combating terrorism and pursuing members of the terrorist Al-Qaeda organization in the theater of operations of the Arrows of the East and the Swords of Hos campaign to purge all areas of Abyan Governorate from... Terrorism is the source of it.

The General Command of the Belt confirmed that targeting Commander Sal’an will not deter our southern armed forces, at the forefront of which are the Belt Forces, from continuing their efforts in combating terrorism and cleansing the region of this malicious scourge, and that it will pursue terrorist elements and the perpetrators of these terrorist acts to their hideouts.