SANA’A: A foreigner living in Yemen shot dead two gunmen who tried to abduct him yesterday, the defence ministry website said.
“Two armed men tried to kidnap a foreign citizen as he was leaving a barber in Hadda Street in Sanaa,” the ministry’s 26sep.net site said of the incident. “But he was able to resist and shot them with a revolver he had in his possession,” the website said. It added that accomplices of the gunmen in a car with no number plates fled.
Security sources said the man was a Russian expert working in the oil sector, and that his attackers were Yemenis from the Marib region east of Sana’a.
Witnesses gave a different version of events, saying the foreigner had two guards who gunned down the armed men.
AFP
