Two coordinated gun attacks targeted the intelligence headquarters in Yemen's southern troubled province of Abyan on Wednesday, killing at least 10 intelligence personnel and wounding 13 others, a provincial security official said.

The official said the assailants carried out coordinated attacks against the two neighboring buildings of the intelligence office and the general security camp in Zinjubar city of Abyan early Wednesday.

The attackers launched serious shootings by heavy machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades from four cars and broke into the two buildings.

The dead and injured were rushed to a nearby hospital, said the official.

The attackers managed to flee while backup security forces were sent immediately to the scene.

"The pair attacks were spectacular, it's al-Qaida again, it's the second of its kind in less than one month against the Yemeni southern intelligence headquarters' buildings," said the official who asked not to be named.

Meanwhile, the top army official ordered to launch an air raid against al-Qaida hideouts in Abyan province, an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

On June 19, militants raided the intelligence headquarters in the southern port city of Aden, killing at least 11. Al-Qaida later claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it killed at least 24 people.

Yemen, the ancestral homeland of al-Qaida network leader Osama bin Laden, has intensified security operations and air raids against terrorist groups, after the Yemen-based al-Qaida wing claimed responsibility for a failed Christmas Day attempt to blow up a U.S. passenger plane bound for Detroit last year.