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Two Dead in Shootout near the British Embassy in Yemen

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Two Yemeni men were killed and three others injured in a shootout near the British Embassy on Sunday when armed tribesmen insisted on driving their car through an off-limits area, a Yemeni official said.

The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the fight started when the embassy's Yemeni guards prevented a group of tribesmen, heading to a wedding, from crossing the roadblock in front of the embassy.

A Yemeni guard and a tribesman were killed and three people were injured, the official said.

The tribesmen included sons of parliamentary Speaker Abduallah al-Ahmar and their entourage who were heading to the wedding of one of al-Ahmar's daughters, the official Yemeni news agency quoted an Interior Ministry official as saying.

Several of the attackers were arrested, the official was quoted as saying. He gave no other details.

British Ambassador to Yemen Frances Guy said there were no injuries among the embassy staff.

Yemen long has been a fertile al-Qaeda recruiting ground and has vast tribal areas beyond government control where al-Qaeda members are believed to be hiding. Osama Bin Laden was born in Saudi Arabia of a family that hails from Yemen.

Source: Agencies

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