Tribesmen in Shabwa demand punishment for killers of Sheikh Abdullah Al-Bani

SHABWA, April 25 (YPA) – Dozens of tribesmen from Shabwa province, eastern Yemen, have set up a sit-in camp on Monday to demand a retribution “Qisa” for the killers of Sheikh Abdullah al-Bani, who was assassinated while delivering an Eid al-Fitr sermon in the airport yard in the center of Bayhan.

Local residents said “dozens of tribesmen in the district of Bayhan, set up a camp in the Eid chapel to demand a retribution from the killers of Sheikh Abdullah Al-Bani.”

Sources added that this camp “comes within the steps of escalation and community mobilization to demand quick retribution from the killers of (Al-Bani), where some of the accused are still at large.”

“Banners were raised on the camp demanding swift retribution and the implementation of Allah’s law against all those who participated in that operation,” they said.

Eight recruits from the UAE’s Shabwa Defense Forces fired shots at Sheikh al-Bani last Friday, immediately after he finished his Eid al-Fitr sermon in Bayhan district, west of Shabwa, killing him instantly.

The Interior Ministry of the government, loyal to Saudi-led coalition announced in a statement that it had arrested 8 recruits from the “Sixth Brigade of Shabwa Defense” on charges of killing Sheikh Al-Bani.

E.M