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/ 2 May 2008

Yemen mosque rocked by bomb blast

About 15 people were killed and over 60 were wounded when a bomb hidden in a motorcycle exploded outside a mosque in Yemen’s volatile northern city of Saada on Friday, a security source said. The blast happened as worshippers, including army officers, were leaving the Salman Mosque after Friday prayers, officials and security sources said.

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/ 25 February 2008

Yemen’s tourist sector hit by al-Qaeda attacks

Foreigners wander freely among the handsome stone and baked-brick houses of Sanaa’s Old City, but elsewhere in Yemen al-Qaeda attacks have damaged a fledgling tourism industry already hurt by tribal kidnappings. The government, which hopes tourism earnings can help offset flagging oil revenues, is struggling to shore up security by providing armed police escorts for travel to certain areas.

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/ 2 October 2007

Red Sea volcano still spewing lava and ash

A volcano on a Yemeni island in the Red Sea was spewing a deadly mix of lava and ash for the third straight day on Tuesday, after erupting for the first time since the 19th century. Yemeni authorities said three soldiers had been killed during the eruption on the island of Jabal al-Tair, home to a garrison of 50 soldiers.

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/ 15 September 2006

Yemen foils attacks on oil, gas facilities

Yemen foiled two suicide attacks on its oil and gas facilities on Friday, days after al-Qaeda urged Muslims to target Western interests, especially oil installations. The Interior Ministry said four bombers were killed when security forces blew up four rigged cars at dawn before they reached their targets. A guard was also killed.

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/ 12 September 2006

Dozens killed in stampede at Yemen election rally

At least 50 people were killed and 100 hurt in a stampede on Tuesday at a stadium in southern Yemen during an election rally by President Ali Abdullah Saleh, a week ahead of polls already marred by violence. The victims were crushed to death when tens of thousands of people tried to gain entry into the sports stadium at the town of Ibb, witnesses said.

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/ 29 December 2005

Landslide kills 30 in Yemen, scores missing

At least 30 Yemenis were killed in an overnight landslide which hit a village on a rocky slope near the capital Sanaa. There are approximately 100 people still missing, an interior ministry official said on Thursday. Yemen’s Saba official news agency said that 25 out of the village’s 31 houses were destroyed and were buried under huge piles of rocks

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/ 5 September 2005

Smugglers force refugees into the sea

About 75 Ethiopian and Somali boat refugees are feared to have drowned when smugglers taking them to Yemen forced them to jump into the sea, with scores more missing. Forty-five bodies have been recovered on the shores of Shabwa province, said an official with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

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/ 8 September 2004

Yemen blast kills six

Six people were killed and about 50 injured on Wednesday in an unexplained explosion in north-west Yemen near an area where there have been clashes between the army and followers of a rebel Muslim preacher, witnesses and medical sources said. The blast occurred in a market in Kataf, east of Saada province.