Gunmen attack Yemen power plant after Qaeda clash

SANAA, Aug 9 (Reuters) Gunmen attacked a government complex, police checkpoints and a power station today in the Yemeni city of Marib, where security forces had killed four al Qaeda militants a day earlier, a security source said.

There were no immediate reports of casualties in the attacks in Marib about 150 km east of the capital Sanaa, the source said.

Yesterday Yemeni security forces killed four al-Qaeda militants who were involved in an attack on Spanish tourists tourists last month, President Ali Abdullah Saleh said.

One of those killed was the second most senior leader of al Qaeda's Yemen wing, according to a senior security source.

Yemen, which joined the US-led war on terrorism after al Qaeda's September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, has offered a 75,500 dollars reward for information leading to the capture of those behind a bombing that killed eight Spanish tourists and two Yemenis last month.

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