Two wanted people were killed and an officer was injured on Sunday in an exchange of gunfire between three fugitives and police in western Yemen.
Security sources said that the fugitives whom the Interior Ministry alerted the security authorities about their car as wanted a week ago clashed with police at Alshamalia checkpoint in Hodeida province.
Before the incident, the three convinced other checkpoints they were national security officials using forged IDs, according to the Alsahwa website. But when the checkpoint was alerted about them, they could not pass and then started firing at police, forcing police to return fire.
As a result, two of them were killed identified as Qais Al-Jabobi, holding a national security ID, and Majed Saleh, a central security soldier.
The third was arrested and is now being investigated to know the motives of the shooting.
Police have ruled out the three were of Al-Houthi followers.
Separate from the shooting out, a Houthi leader has been killed in an ambush in the district of Mejez, Saada.
The car of Abu Ali, known as the leader of Dhahyan district, came under a shower of bullets while heading to the district in which he and two of his escorts were killed immediately.
Preliminary reports suggested that the incident came within a conflict between Abu Ali and a tribe in his area.