Police kill Al-Waqidi’s son [Archives:2004/785/Local News]

Hassan Al-Zaidi
SANA'A- The son of Sheikh Ahmad Ali Al-Waqidi, one of the prominent Sheikhs in Rada'a, was killed last Friday by the police after they attempted to storm Al-Waqidi's house in Khawlan Street.
Sources say that a battle between the police and the son of Al-Waqidi took place when the police wanted him to hand over his personal gun to them. The fatal clashes resulted in the killing of Al-Waqidi son by a policeman with a bullet in his head.
The Ministry of Interior resorted to the arbitration of tribesmen.
This incidence is considered as one of a series of frequently committed incidents by the security officers, who, prior to this, killed a citizen at his house and before his family members with the belief that the number plate of his bus is not renewed.
Police officers, recently deployed throughout the capital, carry out their duties in the framework of a security deployment plan implemented by the Ministry of Interior since 2002.
The police recruits were ordered to work in the field without adequate training according to the law and the way of dealing with people. According to the source, such inadequate training makes the police recruits face recurrent confrontations with citizens all over Yemen.
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