South Arabia
Seven Persons Killed and Injured during a Funeral in a Cemetery in Sanaa
[su_label type=”info”]SMA News – Al-Arabia Al-Yemenia – Sanaa – Follow-ups [/su_label][su_spacer size=”10″] Three persons were killed while four others were injured in armed clashes in a cemetery in Sanaa. Local sources indicated that armed persons of two tribes in Amran engaged in armed clashes during a funeral in Sheikh Abdullah Ben Hussain Al-Ahmar’s cemetery. A tribal source in Amran, north of Sanaa, indicated that during the funeral of “Rashad Abd Al-Ghany Al-Mufrez, who died in a traffic accident, two persons of the same famility, with previous history of revenge, met during the funeral. The two persons were armed and immediately started a gun fire while both were killed. The situation escalated as other gun men of the tribe were summoned and engaged in armed clash that led to the killing of the third person and injury of four others. It is noteworthy that Sanaa lives in an unstable and unsecured situation since the control of Al-Houthis over the Yemeni capital in 2014