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| Three hurt as RPG targets UK diplomatic car in Yemen |
| 2010-10-07 |
| [Dawn] Three people were maimed on Wednesday by a rocket-propelled grenade which targeted a British diplomatic vehicle in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, witnesses said. It was not clear if any Britons were among the maimed in the attack which took place on Khawlan Street, about three kilometres from the British embassy. On April 26, a boomer hurled himself at the British ambassador's two-car convoy in a Sanaa street as it neared the British embassy compound. The boomer, whose body was torn into pieces, maimed three bystanders and damaged a police escort car as he threw himself at the convoy and detonated his boom belt. Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the group's local branch, later claimed the attack, which saw the embassy closed for two weeks. Yemen, Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's ancestral homeland, faces a growing threat from AQAP. Sanaa has intensified its operations against AQAP amid mounting pressure from Washington after the Islamic myrmidon group grabbed credit for a botched attack on US-bound airliner on Christmas Day last year. |
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