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China Daily | Updated: 2014-04-21 07:27

Yemen

Al-Qaida camps hit by airstrikes

A number of al-Qaida militants were killed when an airstrike hit their training camps in a remote mountainous region on Sunday, the defense ministry said. On Saturday, another strike killed 10 al-Qaida militants, as well as three nearby civilians, in central Yemen.

Sudan

Engineers from China abducted

Two Chinese engineers, working at an oil field belonging to Sudanese oil companies in Sudan's West Kordofan state, were abducted by unidentified men on Friday, according to sources at the Chinese embassy in Khartoum on Sunday. The sources said that emergency procedures were put in effect at the embassy and Sudanese authorities were contacted.

Egypt

Two police officers killed

Gunmen killed an Egyptian intelligence officer and a policeman on a road outside Cairo, the Interior Ministry said on Sunday. The armed men fled after shooting dead Captain Ashraf Badeer el-Qazaz of the intelligence service and a police conscript, the ministry said in a statement.

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