ABYAN (Debriefer)--Fighters of the southern transitional council have laid an ambush for a convoy of the government forces in Yemen's southern province of Abyan.
Local sources said a group of armored vehicles and pickup trucks of the government forces came under heavy fire from light and medium weapons in the area of Dhayqah west of the district of Al-Mahfad on Sunday night.
The convoy escaped the ambush and continued its way through the international road between Abyan and Shabwa provinces to the district of Shuqra, the sources said, adding that there were no casualties.
The ambush came hours after the STC forces received infrared home missiles from the UAE, military sources said.
Al-Mahfad is a transit point for government reinforcements that come from Marib and Shabwa. Large numbers of the UAE-backed STC forces are stationed in it.
The two sides are continuing to mobilise for further fighting amid a fragile ceasefire and faltering Saudi-sponsored talks aimed at forming a new government and ending violence in the south, the local sources said.
