The 2007 Yemen tourist attack was a suicide car bomb attack on Spanish tourists visiting the Queen of Sheba temple in Marib, Marib Governorate on July 2, 2007. No group has claimed responsibility for the attacks.
| 2007 Marib suicide car bombing | |
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| Location | Marib, Yemen |
| Date | July 2, 2007 (UTC+3) |
| Target | Spanish tourists |
Attack type | Suicide car bombing |
| Deaths | 10 |
| Injured | 12 |
| Perpetrators | Unknown |
Details
editOn 2 July 2007, an unknown militant rammed an explosive-laden car into a tourist convoy killing 8 Spanish tourists, 2 Yemeni drivers, and injuring 12.[1]
Aftermath
editOn August 8, four militants died in a Yemeni military raid near Mareb, one of them Kassem al-Raimi, who allegedly masterminded the attacks. According to Yemeni military officials, Raimi was a "top Al-Qaeda operative" involved in other operations and was one of the 13 prisoners who escaped from a Sanaa prison in 2006.[2]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Yemeni tourist bombers 'killed'". BBC News. 8 August 2007. Retrieved 15 October 2014.
- ^ "Yemeni tourist bombers 'killed'". BBC News. 8 August 2007. Retrieved 15 October 2014.
External links
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