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Yemen: Five dead in mosque shootout
A GUNMAN opened fire on worshippers in a mosque outside the Yemeni capital during prayers today, killing four people and injuring six, according to police. The shooter, identified by a police official as Abdel Fattah Saleh, allegedly used an automatic rifle to fire randomly during the midday prayers at a mosque in the province of Dhammar, 60km south of the capital, Sanaa. Saleh fled to his house and refused to turn himself in to authorities.
| "You'll never take me alive, coppers!" |
Police stormed the house and Saleh was killed in an exchange of gunfire.
Investigations were under way, the official said. But he said Saleh was not a wanted militant and that a domestic dispute may have prompted the shooting.
| "She don't love me no more! Where's my shootin' iron?" |
Posted by: .com 2004-06-12 |
