Abyan (Debriefer) - Three of the Southern Transitional Council (STC) troops were killed and 13 others injured late on Monday in fighting with the Yemeni official army in the southern governorate of Abyan.
Two STC soldiers were killed by government forces' mortars in two frontlines of Sheikh Salem and Taria, northeast Zinjobar city, said spokesman for the STC-affiliated 4th military region, Mohamed al-Naqib.
A medical source at al-Razi Hospital in Abyan told the Anadolu Agency that they received three bodies of the STC troops, in addition to 13 others wounded, without further details.
Abyan infighting comes although a Saudi military committee arrived last Thursday in Aden to oversee arrangements for applying the military and security section of the Riyadh Agreement and its accelerating mechanism declared on 29 July.
These arrangements imply withdrawal of STC forces from sites and institutions, as well as disengagement and redeployment of both sides' troops in Abyan.
In its political section, the accelerating mechanism provides for STC to quit its self-governance, and a technocrat government to be formed, with its portfolios equally shared by Yemen's northern and southern provinces.
One of the gravest obstacles facing the pact's application is the military and security section providing for armed forces be pulled out of main cities and STC's units be integrated into official defense and interior ministries.
