Militants believed to belong to al-Qaeda launched Monday offences on government institutions in the southeast city of al-Baythda,some260 Kilometers southwest the Yemeni capital of Sana'a.
The militants continued their assault today and seized control of the central prison releasing all of its inmates. They also attacked an intelligence prison in the city and set it ablaze , leaving a soldier killed and another injured.
The ministry of defense quoted a military source in the city as saying:"a terrorist group attacked Monday the central prison in the Rada and they set an intelligence prison a blaze, which resulted in one soldier killed and another injured,"
The initial accounts of Rada's central prison released inmates are 700 among them serving judiciary sentences.
The militants have began their attacks on Sunday as they took control of key locations in the al-Baytha provincial capital of Rada, including historic Rada castle and communications' building .
The terrorist group declared Rada as an islamist emirate ,as did their fellow group(Ansar al-Sharia) in the southern Abyan provincial capital of Zinjubar in May.
The group is led by Tariq al-Thahab, who is connected by marriage to late American-Yemeni cleric Anwar al-Awlaqi , who was killed a couple of months ago by an American drone.