Yemeni officer murdered while investigating WFP staffer’s death

Unknown gunmen shot dead police captain Adnan Al-Muhaya, one of the investigators probing the last month murder of a UN World Food Programme staff member.

Al-Muhaya was killed in Jahmalia district, Taiz city, southwest Yemen, on Tuesday afternoon, local security sources affirmed.

The security committee of the governorate opened a probe into the new crime while a manhunt for the perpetrators got underway.

On Friday, July 21, the WFP mourned the loss of head of its office in Taiz Moayad Hameidi, a Jordanian national, in a shooting attack in Turbah town, south Taiz governorate

Source: Kuwait News Agency