Wadi Dawan attack

Wadi Dawan attack
Location
Date
Target	Belgian tourists
Attack type	Ambush
Deaths	5
Non-fatal injuries	4
Perpetrators	Unknown

Template:Campaignbox Insurgencies in Yemen Template:Campaignbox al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen since 1992 The Wadi Dawan attack was an ambush attack on Belgian tourists traveling in a convoy through Hadhramaut in the Wadi Dawan desert valley on January 18, 2008.

Details

A convoy of four jeeps carrying 15 tourists to Shibam was ambushed by gunmen in a hidden pickup truck. Two Belgian women, Claudine Van Caillie, of Bruges, 63, and Katrine Glorie, from East Flanders, 54, as well as two Yemenis, a driver and a guide, were killed; another man was also heavily wounded, several others suffered minor wounds. The tourists were repatriated to Belgium on January 19, except the injured man, who remained in Sanaa.

In the wake of the attack, Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Karel De Gucht originally rejected that Al-Qaeda might be responsible, explaining that although the possibility could be avoided, internecine disputes and latent Islamism also to be taken into account. A number of arrests were made on January 21.

Reactions

• President of the European Council Slovenia released a statement saying "The EU Presidency strongly condemns all forms of violence and calls on the government of Yemen to bring the perpetrators of these crimes to justice."

See also

• List of terrorist incidents, 2008
• 2007 attack on tourists in Yemen

External links

• bbc.co.uk

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