ADEN, Yemen — Gunmen fired on a Yemeni provincial leader's motorcade Monday, killing at least five security officers and wounding two others, authorities said.

The attack targeted Taiz Gov. Nabil Shamsan on a road linking the province to the rest of the country, a provincial spokesman told The Associated Press. Mohamed Abdel-Rahman added that two assailants were killed in the shootout.

No group immediately claimed responsibility.

In a statement, the governor’s office said security and military forces were working to bring those behind the attack to justice.

The province’s capital, also named Taiz, has been a battleground pitting the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels and other militias backed by the Islamist Islah party against each other as well as other factions in Yemen’s civil war.

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