 Three Yemenis were killed and seven others injured in a clash between rival tribesmen in eastern Yemen Thursday, security sources said. The sources said the clash erupted in the early morning between the tribes of Hamadan and Shulan in the province of Shouf. They said gunmen from Hamadan tribe, whose chief Hassan al-Iraqi escaped an assassination attempt Wednesday, intercepted a group of armed men from the rival tribe on their way to the capital, Sanaa, and clashed with them. | "Youse guys ain't gonna git away wid shootin' up da boss! Eat lead!" |
Three gunmen from the Hamadan tribe, including Iraqi's brother, were killed and seven others injured, some of them suffering serious wounds. | Guess that ambush didn't go as planned |
Iraqi and the chief of the Shulan tribe, Amin Akimi, also a member of parliament, were detained at the Defense Ministry for interrogation. Iraqi suffered an injury in the head when gunmen tried to assassinate him as he walked out of the ministry in Sanaa Wednesday. Battles between the two biggest tribes in Jouf province has been going on for more than a week. | "Yar, we be the dread tribes of Jouf!" |
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