clear

Creating new perspectives since 2009

Leader of Yemen’s Islah party assassinated in Aden

February 14, 2018 at 2:05 am

Logo of the Yemeni Congregation for Reform, frequently called al-Islah is a Yemeni Islamist party [Wikipedia]

Unknown gunmen have assassinated a senior leader of Yemen’s Al-Islah Party in the southern city of Aden.

Local sources in Aden said masked men riding a motorbike attacked the al-Islah party leader and the imam of Thowar mosque, Shawki Kamadi while he was in his car in a neighbourhood in the Mualla area and shot him.

No one has claimed responsibility for the assassination.

The city of Aden witnessed a series of assassinations against mosques imams, army officers and local officials.

Read: Al-Islah Party’s leader survives assassination