March 15, 2009
Four Tourists Killed in Terror Bombing In Yemen
Pathetic, just pathetic.
Translation of news from al-Tagheer: Four tourists in Shibam Hadramout killed this evening in a car bomb by a suicide bomber.He said the correspondent of the "change" in a procession to Shibam for a group of tourists traveling in a vehicle belonging to one of the travel and tourism, one of the persons intercepted a car bomb has exploded cars and a number of dead and wounded.
The correspondent added that the operation took place near a mountain, "Bp" in the Sale of Shibam Hadramout and during the procession of tourists stopped to take pictures of the sunset from the top of the mountain.
The correspondent pointed out that he is still writing, even ambulances transported the injured to more bad in the hospital did not have definitive statistics on the victims of the accident, which, according to preliminary data, which left four tourists from the Korean nationality.
He stressed that the security forces in the region imposed a security cordon at the scene of the incident and prevented from approaching it.
Update: They were South Korean tourists. This is very sad. Another report says it was a remote controlled device, which if true may indicate prior experience in Iraq or an unwillingness to martyrdom, like the ambush of the Belgians in January 2008. The government while confirming the attack is not releasing details.
Updated casualty figures: Four South Koreans, one Yemeni killed, nine South Koreans wounded. Photo of Shibam below the fold, it is an ancient city of mud skscrapers.
