Senior leader returns to Socotra after assassination attempt in Abu Dhabi

SOCOTRA, May 17 (YPA) – One of the most prominent sheikhs of the Yemeni archipelago of Socotra returned after a failed assassination attempt in the Emirati capital, Abu Dhabi.

Sources familiar with the matter on the island said that the sheikh Gharib al-Soqtari returned to his hometown in the Shaq area, east of the city of Hadiboh, the center of the archipelago, after receiving treatment for months in Hadramout as a result of an attempt to assassinate him by poison in Abu Dhabi earlier this year, for unknown reasons.

Gharib al-Soqtari is one of the most senior sheikhs and the first soldiers in the marine corps on the island during the national front in the year 1973.

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