Yemen mosque attacker says he avenged his honor
Sana’a, June 8, 2008 (YemenOnline) - A person who shot dead eight worshipers and injured 12 others outside a mosque in Amran province, 60 km (40 miles) north of the capital Sana’a, last week told a court on Sunday that he avenged his honor.
“The attacker said that he intended to kill a man he had an illicit affair with his sister,” media reports said.
The prosecution asked the court to impose the maximum punishment on the attacker, which is death sentence.
“When asked about the motives behind the crime Abdullah Saleh Zeid al-Qohali, 23, told the court that a fellow man named Belal Qasem al-Qohali got his sister pregnant three times,” media sources said.
Security authorities said that the motive behind the shooting was criminal and that the attacker had land dispute with a fellow clansman and that he was mentally unstable.
The court set June 11 for coming hearing.
Many local journalists and correspondents of foreign news agencies attended today’s hearing.
In May 2, 2008, a booby-trapped motorcycle killed 16 worshipers and wounded 45 others while they were filing out of a mosque in a village in Sa’ada province.
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