UAE aid worker shot dead in Aden by unknown gunmen: Security source
Date
10/17/2015 12:05:04 PM
(MENAFN- The Peninsula)Guards stand at the south gate of an intelligence building in Yemen's western city of Hodaida.
ADEN: An aid worker from the United Arab Emirates was shot dead in the southern Yemen city of Aden by unknown gunmen on Saturday a Yemeni security officer said in another sign of instability in the port city where Yemen's fragile government is based.
"The aid worker was travelling in an armored land cruiser with a group of Emiratis in Aden's Mansora district. He was shot dead when he exited the vehicle near a store by gunmen pursuing in another car" said the official.
A UAE spokesperson was not available for comment.
Al Qaeda and Islamic State have both gained ground in Yemen where a war has been raging for seven months between a Saudi-led
military alliance and Houthi militiamen allied to Iran.
In a series of suicide bombings on Oct. 6 Islamic State killed 22 people including several troops from the United Arab Emirates at the government headquarters in the southern port of Aden and military bases in the city.
It was the biggest attack on the government and its coalition ally since Gulf Arab and Yemeni troops retook the city from its Houthi forces in July.
Two Red Cross aid workers were shot dead in the northern Yemeni province of Amran in September by unknown gunmen.
Reuters