7 killed & 4 injured in Rada’a [Archives:2000/19/Local News]

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May 8 2000

Five persons were killed and four injured from Al-Jabr tribe in Rada’a when a person from Anass, Dhamar governorate, opened fire on them. It is reported that this man has already worked with them and they kept delaying his payment.
Security sources in Rada’a report that the murderer, accompanied with another person, sneaked to a Qat farm belonging to the murdered persons. However, they were caught, imprisoned and tortured for a week. One of them died of torture while the other was able to distract the owners’ attention, took their machine gun and fired on them, killing five and injuring four, including a woman. When he tried to escape, he was shot dead by the people in the area. Four of the dead bodies were buried while the bodies of the murderer and his companion are still in the hospital of the district.

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