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By Mohammed Ghobari SANAA (Reuters) - Three gunmen were killed after they tried to attack a security checkpoint in the Yemeni capital early on Sunday, the interior ministry said, the second such incident close to the presidential palace in Sanaa in as many days. The attack appeared to be retaliation for an army offensive against al Qaeda that has ousted many militants from bastions in south Yemen first seized during mass unrest in 2011, endangering national security and oil-exporting Saudi Arabia next door. \"Three terrorists were killed at dawn today in a new attack that targeted a security checkpoint,\" the interior ministry said in a statement, adding that a fourth gunman was wounded and a civilian bystander was also killed. \"We heard heavy gunfire near the central intelligence building which is on the road leading to the presidential palace,\" one resident said.
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