Sanaa - They wanted to help people in one of the poorest countries in the world. But they paid their neighbor to death:
At least three of the nine kidnapped foreigners in Yemen, including a German couple and their three small children and two German nurses were murdered in cold blood, it was said from Yemeni security sources.
) Two little girls (11 months and 3 years old were brought to safety. Four people (including the four-year son of the couple) would still missing. Other messages said, all the nine kidnapping victims were dead
Shepherd had discovered three bodies of women near the village Akwan in the northern province of Saada. The three 22 to 27 years old kidnapping victim - the two German nurses, and a South Korean teacher - died from gunshots and knife wounds. Eyewitnesses mentioned that the bodies were mutilated.
A tribal leader in the region is safe: "Beyond the fact is the terrorist network Al Qaeda." That is still speaking, another reason: In recent days, was in Yemen, a key al-Qaeda financiers been arrested.
Terrorism expert Guido Steinberg sees Osama bin Laden's terrorist force behind the brutal deed. "The killing of civilians speaks more to the proximity of the perpetrators to al Qaeda," he said of the Central German newspaper.
The German family has already lived and worked for years in Yemen: The 35-year-old engineer and father as a caretaker at the Al-Dschumhuri hospital in Saada, the mother (30) of three small children as a nurse. The Germans were commissioned by the Dutch aid organization Worldwide Services working at the hospital.
The seven Germans were on Friday along with a British engineer and his South Korean women were abducted during a picnic.
The clinic is located in a conflict zone. Doctors and aid workers are currently the only foreigners who have access to the province of Saada have to deliver in which the government forces since 2004, repeatedly clashed with the Houthi rebels. The conflict have already killed hundreds of people a year.
In Yemen, are frequently kidnapped Western tourists or employees. It was not until Friday had released 24 tribesmen and foreign domestic helpers. All worked in a hospital funded by Saudi Arabia and one days had been previously abducted.
