Al-Qaeda militants in al-Mukala killed a senior Intelligence officer late on Wednesday evening, the provincial capital of Hadramout, security source told Yemen Post.
Fraj Saeed Qahtan was kidnapped by al-Qaeda Wednesday afternoon, and was found killed with his throat slashed wide open late at night, said the source requesting anonymity.
"Late last night we received reports telling us the whereabouts of the militants who kidnapped Qahtan earlier the day. When police forces arrived to the place, they exchanged gunfire with the terrorists who were in a car in Doan area of Hadramout" he said.
"The police opened fire on the car, forcing the car to stop. But when they approached the car, they only found Qahtan dead, whom al-Qaeda obviously cut his throat in a brutal, ugly way before they abandon the car." He added, noting that the militants managed to escape through the cultivated farms.
In a separate incident, Aytha Fraj Baganem, a colonel at the Political Intelligence Security was assassinated on February 12 by the militants in the trouble-torn province of al-Baytha.
In November, Ahmed Nasser al-Jari, the chief of Political Intelligence Security in al-Baytha, was also killed by terrorist transnational network.
Saudi Arabia and USA have repeatedly voiced their gravest concerns over al-Qaeda free activities in the trouble-torn Gulf state. USA has stepped up its drone raids on the terrorists' hideouts to compensate for the disrupted cooperation on terrorism with Yemen.