The Interior ministry ordered on Monday to intensify patrols and increase security checkpoints in the capital Sana'a in order to arrest wanted suspects and cars.

It also urged the security forces to stay on heightened alert to face possible criminal acts and thwart any attempts to disturb the security.The Central Security, Police Rescue, Criminal Investigative Department and Counterterrorism Unit should assume their responsibility in this regard and play an effective role in arresting suspects and dangerous criminals, it said.Police at checkpoints must precisely check cars and IDs, the ministry urged, a day after circulating the pictures and names of eight al Qaeda suspects wanted on charges of harming the national and public security.