SANA'A, Yemen (AFP)--A Yemeni court Monday sentenced four suspected Al-Qaeda militants to up to three years in prison for planning attacks against foreigners and government targets.
Three were sentenced to three years in jail and the fourth to two and a half years for the attack plots and forming an armed gang.
Meanwhile, the interior ministry said that an Al-Qaeda fighter on its most wanted list was killed as he was making a roadside bomb to carry out a "terrorist" operation in Abyan in southern Yemen.
The ministry also said it has arrested a 22-year-old man in the west of the country who is suspected of involvement in a bomb attack that targeted a South Korean delegation in March.
Yemen, the ancestral home land of Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, has been the scene of a string of attacks claimed by the network against oil facilities, the security forces and foreign targets including the U.S. embassy.
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