Gunmen on Monday shot dead a judge in Aden, in the latest attack in the violence-plagued city of southern Yemen, police said.

Gunmen on Monday shot dead a judge in Aden, in the latest attack in the violence-plagued city of southern Yemen, police said.

The unidentified assailants on a motorbike opened fire at Abdulhadi Mohammed near his house in the Mansura district, killing the judge, a police official said, adding they managed to flee.

There has been a growing number of attacks and assassinations in Aden, the ousted government's temporary capital, by Takfiris.

Al-Qaeda and the rival ISIL group (so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Levant) both have a presence in the city, where Takfiris occupy the ousted government buildings and are seen patrolling several districts and intimidating civilians.