German embassy employee shot dead in Yemen
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Gunmen shot dead a German security guard employed by the German embassy in Yemen's capital Sanaa on Sunday as he was leaving a supermarket, Yemeni security officials said, in an attack they said bore the hallmarks of al-Qaeda. The guard was gunned down in Sanaa's Hadda district. Pan-Arab news channel al-Arabiya reported that the guard was shot as assailants tried to kidnap the German ambassador Carola Mueller-Holtkemper, who escaped.
Mueller-Holtkemper had only recently arrived in Yemen and presented her credentials to Yemeni authorities less than a week ago, the embassy's website showed. (Reuters)
