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Oil worker killed, five wounded in Yemeni attack

07/02/2007
One oil worker was killed and five wounded on June 23 when a Yemeni guard opened fire on a group of workers at an Occidental Petroleum Corp. site in Yemen’s Shabwa province, about 300 miles south of the capital of Sanaa.The victims were disembarking an airplane that had landed at Oxy’s Al-Naeem airstrip in Shabwa when the guard randomly opened fire at them, according to a report in the Al-Ayyam newspaper.Yemen’s Interior Ministry said a female Indian oil engineer died in the attack, while Oxy said only that one of its subcontractors, a non-American, was killed. A local governor claimed the Yemeni guard was mentally ill-a phrase often used by officials when terrorists are...
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