An army tank drives on a road near the southern Yemeni city of Zinjibar June 14, 2012. (Photo: Reuters)
Forty militants were killed in southern Yemen when government troops captured a military position and trapped 300 fighters there, the Defence Ministry said in a text message sent on Thursday.
It gave no further details.
The Yemeni army is pushing ahead with a U.S.-backed offensive against the al Qaeda-linked Ansar al-Sharia (Partisans of Islamic Law) after they drove militants from two of their main strongholds in southern Yemen last week.
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