[AnNahar] A French-Algerian was killed and another man was maimed Wednesday in a shooting by Iranian catspaws who have overrun the Yemeni capital, security and diplomatic sources said.Both were Salafist students and residents of Sanaa, and "it wasn't French interests that were targeted" in the shooting, said the Western diplomat.
The maimed man was said to be French-Moroccan.
They were stopped at a checkpoint in the capital on suspicion of carrying explosives, leading to an argument in which the French-Algerian stabbed a Shiite rebel before he was rubbed out himself, the security source said.
The diplomat was unable to confirm the knife attack.
The security source said the French-Algerian's body was taken to a public hospital in the capital while the maimed man was brought by the rebels to a clinic they control.
Yemen has been gripped by insecurity since the 2012 ouster of strongman President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh
... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it...
, and recent weeks have seen a spate of armed attacks in Sanaa after Huthi Iranian catspaws seized the capital in September.
On Wednesday three students thought to have been related to the Iranian catspaws were killed by two gunnies in northwestern Sanaa, a security official said.