A suicide car bombing killed five people and wounded at least eight others on Monday when it hit a post run by pro-government militiamen in the south Yemen city of Loder.

A suicide car bombing killed five people and wounded at least eight others on Monday when it hit a post run by pro-government militiamen in the south Yemen city of Loder, witnesses and medics told Agence France Presse.
 
"Five were killed and more than eight wounded in the explosion of a car bomb driven by a suicide attacker targeting a position of the Popular Resistance Committees," said a witness from the militias which AFP says have battled Al-Qaeda alongside government forces.
 
A medical source confirmed the death toll but it was not immediately clear if the casualties were members of the militia or civilians.
 
Al-Qaeda militants were driven out of most of the cities of Abyan province in June last year in an all-out offensive by government forces aided by the resistance committees, after the extremists had controlled most of the province for a year.
 
Al-Qaeda took advantage of the weakness of Yemen's central government during an uprising in 2011 against now-ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh to seize large areas of territory across the south.
 
Yemeni forces, aided by US drone attacks, continue to hunt Qaeda militants hiding in the vast rugged terrain of the southern Arabian Peninsula country.