ADEN - The intelligence chief of Yemen’s main southern city of Aden has escaped an assassination bid by unidentified gunmen, a security official said on Wednesday. “Unknown gunmen opened fire on Aden’s intelligence chief, General Ghazi Ahmed Ali, as he was returning from work late on Tuesday, wounding two of his companions” who were hospitalised, the official said. It was the third such attempt to kill Ali. In October, Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility of one of the attempts in a statement issued from southeastern Shebwa province, one of its strongholds in the impoverished Arabian Peninsula country.