A drone strike has killed four suspected Al-Qaeda militants in southeast Yemen, a provincial official said Thursday.

A drone strike has killed four suspected Al-Qaeda militants in southeast Yemen, a provincial official said Thursday.

The attack late Wednesday hit a car in a military camp in Al-Qaeda-controlled Mukalla, capital of the vast desert province of Hadramawt.

The official, who did not want to be named, said a local Al-Qaeda chief was among those killed.

A second Al-Qaeda vehicle was targeted on Wednesday evening in a drone strike in the town of Ghil Bawazir in the same province but there was no word of casualties, he said.

AQAP said earlier this month that its leader Nasir al-Wuhayshi, number two in the global Takfiri organization, was killed in one such raid, and named its military chief as his successor.