Gunmen kill Yemeni colonel in capital - security official


  • World
  • Thursday, 24 Oct 2013

ADEN (Reuters) - Gunmen on a motor bike shot dead a senior Yemeni intelligence service officer on Thursday, in the latest of a string of drive-by shootings targeting the country's top brass.

Colonel Abdulrahman Mohammed al-Shami was leaving his home in the capital Sanaa' at noon when one of the two unidentified gunmen opened fire on him and fled, a local security official said. The colonel died immediately.

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