Citizen killed by armed gang in Mahra

MAHRA, Nov. 30 (YPA) – A citizen was killed on Wednesday by an armed gang in Mahra province, which is under the control of foreign forces in eastern Yemen.

Local sources said that unidentified gunmen killed the citizen Salem Ahmed Mohammad Al-Mahri and looted his car that he was traveling in broke down in Etab area.

The sources added that the gunmen killed the citizen and fled in his car to an unknown place after being pursued by Sayhut district’s police that clashed with them on charges of smuggling.

Mahra is one of the rare Yemeni provide that did not record any security incidents before the arrival of foreign forces and their control over the various districts and the bringing in of hundreds of armed elements loyal to the UAE from Dhalea and Lahj provinces, south of Yemen, during the past years and their redeployment on the Mahra coasts of the under the pretext of combating smuggling.

The phenomenon of security chaos expanded in Mahra after the UAE and Saudi Arabia had distributed money and weapons to tribal sheikhs to get tribal loyalties and undermine the social fabric of the Mahri tribes close to the Sultanate of Oman, in order to achieve foreign interests in the region.

Foreign forces have closed Al-Ghaydah Civil Airport, located on the Arabian Sea, since the end of 2017 and turned it into a joint American-Israeli-Saudi military base amid demands to open the airport to civilian flights.

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