The Yemeni government says three top al-Qaeda militants are killed in two days of air raids on southern Yemen. A third suspected senior militant has also reportedly been killed in two days of raids by the Yemeni airforce. The bombing raids were carried out on Sunday and Monday on the southern province of Abyan. <br/><br/>A security official said Jamil Nasser Abdullah al-Ambari, 25, believed to be the leader of al-Qaeda in southern Abyan province, was one of two militants killed in the raid. <br/><br/>The other militants were named as Smir Al-Sayari, and Ahmed Al-Zarba by local media. The official said the al-Qaeda operatives were connected to the failed bombing of a Detroit-bound airliner on Boxing Day. It is not clear how many other people were killed in the airstrikes.