Army-Qaeda clashes kill 29 in Yemen

At least 29 people were killed in heavy fighting yesterday between the army and suspected al-Qaeda militants in Yemen's southern province of Lahij, officials said.
"Seventeen soldiers were killed in the fighting," which erupted when the Islamist fighters attacked army positions in Mallah, a town in Lahij, an army officer on the ground told AFP.
Eleven others were missing and "believed dead," said the same source.
An official in the al-Qaeda stronghold of Jaar, southeast of Lahij, said 12 militants were also killed.