Almotamar.net - Yemen Interior Ministry has said on Thursday it distributed a new security directory containing 8 wanted al-Qaeda elements, with their names and other information on places of their birth and ages.

The Ministry added that the directory has been circulated among security checkpoints and security cordons around provinces and cities.

The Ministry clarified that investigations have disclosed involvement of the terrorist elements included in the directory, in a number of criminal and sabotage acts which occurred in the provinces of Mareb and Shabwa.

It said circulation of the directory would hasten in capturing the terrorist elements wherever they appear or in any province or city they want to go to. It added that the step comes in continuation of the operation of hunting down al-Qaeda elements and strengthening security measures against them.