German confirms embassy official killed in Yemen
The German foreign ministry confirmed Monday that a security
official at its embassy in Yemen has been killed but denied reports of an
attempted kidnapping of its ambassador. An earlier report had said the
ambassador herself had been the target of a failed kidnap attempt, but the
foreign ministry told AFP that Ambassador Carola Mueller-Holtkemper was outside
the country at the time. On Sunday, a security official and witnesses said
gunmen in a vehicle opened fire and shot dead the ambassador's bodyguard as he
was leaving a store in the southern Hada district, where foreign embassies are
located. Germany was among several Western countries, including the United
States, which closed their embassies in August after US warnings of an Al-Qaeda
attack.
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