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Yemen says tourism activity is 'normal' following tourist shooting
Source: BI-ME , Author: BI-ME staff
Posted: Tue January 22, 2008 12:00 am
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YEMEN. Yemen's Ministry of Tourism announced on Saturday that the tourist situation is normal across the country.

In a press release, the Ministry said that the Belgian tourists, who subjected to the terror attack, were taken back to Belgium via Frankfurt by Lufthansa and healthcare was also given to the injured, under the supervision of the Health Ministry.

The Interior Ministry said today that the police and security forces had just rounded four suspects and arrested them.

The government offered its concern to offer all possible facilities to visitors and tourist convoys, pointing out to condemnation of Yemeni people and all political and civil society organisations for this latest terror attack.

Three people were killed last Friday in Yemen, including two Belgian women tourists, in an attack by armed men on a tourist convoy. Four other people were wounded after the men fired on them in the Wadi Dawan desert valley in Yemen's Hadramout region.

"There were about 15 people in the tourist group in Hadramout province, including the driver and guides," an official was quoted by the Reuters news agency as saying.
 
A Yemeni was also injured in the attack, the AFP news agency reported.
 
Yemeni officials said the attackers were believed to be from a group of Al Qaeda fighters hiding in the valley. But in Belgium, officials did not confirm any Al Qaeda link with the attack.
 
"The region is known for its Islamist extremism but we have no indication that Al Qaeda or any other extremist group was involved,"  a Belgian government spokesman said, adding that the area also had "tribal problems."
 
Tourists often travel through the Wadi Dawan on route to see Shibam, a historic town of mud-brick houses, some as many as nine stories high.
 
An Interior Ministry official, quoted anonymously by the Associated Press, said that Yemeni authorities had received email and telephone threats of imminent attacks over the past two days. The official said Al Qaeda militants were pushing for the release of jailed comrades.
 
In July 2007, a suicide bombing killed seven Spanish tourists and wounded six at a historic site in the Arab country. Two Yemenis were also killed in that attack.

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