UK envoy survives Yemen attack
British ambassador survives suicide bomb attack blamed on al-Qaeda.
Published On 26 Apr 2010
The British ambassador to Yemen has survived a suicide attack on his convoy.
The bomber targeted Tim Torlott as he was travelling to his office in the capital Sanaa.
Security officials said the bomber was a 22-year-old man disguised in a school uniform, while Yemen’s interior ministry said blamed al-Qaeda.
Monday’s bombing is the first suicide attack in Yemen since March 2009 when a South Korean delegation was targeted – no-one was killed in that blast.
Al Jazeera’s Bernard Smith reports.
Source: Al Jazeera