Al-Qaida man hands himself to Yemeni authorities

A suspected member of al-Qaida has turned himself in to the Yemeni authorities and confessed to planning terror attacks against Western embassies in the capital, security officials said.

The man, identified only as a 30-year-old Yemeni extremist, has told his interrogators he belonged to a cell of the al-Qaida terror group and he planned to carry out a suicide attack on the UN offices in San’a last week, the officials said.