Politician and Businessman Murdered [Archives:2000/13/Local News]

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March 27 2000

Last Saturday, Sheik Hassan Mohammed Manna’a, Parliament Chief of the Islah Party, was assassinated in Sa’ada (350 km to the north of Sana’a). Some sources have stated that a man attacked him with a hail of shots while he was leaving his house in Sa’ada. The attacker was arrested and is now under interrogation. However, motives behind the murder and circumstances of the crime have not been revealed yet. Worry has aroused because Sheik Manna’a was a prominent tribal personality in addition to being a great businessman.
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