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| Belgians killed in Yemen attack | Belgians killed in Yemen attack |
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| Two Belgian tourists have been shot dead by gunmen in eastern Yemen, security officials say. | Two Belgian tourists have been shot dead by gunmen in eastern Yemen, security officials say. |
| Four other Belgians were wounded in the attack, which happened in the province of Hadramut. | Four other Belgians were wounded in the attack, which happened in the province of Hadramut. |
| The attackers are believed to be Islamic militants, the Associated Press quoted unnamed officials as saying. | The attackers are believed to be Islamic militants, the Associated Press quoted unnamed officials as saying. |
| Last July, seven Spaniards and two Yemenis were killed when a suicide car bomber attacked a group of tourists visiting a temple in central Yemen. | Last July, seven Spaniards and two Yemenis were killed when a suicide car bomber attacked a group of tourists visiting a temple in central Yemen. |
| Unnamed officials told AP that the Belgian tourists were attacked as they travelled through Wadi Dawan, a desert valley about 300km (180 miles) of the capital Sanaa. | |
| They were reportedly driving in a five-vehicle convoy when a group of gunmen opened fire, the officials said. | |
| Tourists are often drawn to Wadi Dawan area by the famous multi-storey mud buildings in the nearby town of Shibam. | |
| Al-Qaeda attacks | |
| Al-Qaeda has been blamed for a series of attacks in Yemen, the ancestral home of the group's leader Osama Bin Laden. | |
| In July 2006 seven Spanish tourists and their two local drivers died when a suicide bomber rammed his car packed with explosives into their vehicles. | |
| That was the most deadly attack on Westerners in the country since 17 US soldiers aboard the USS Cole were killed when the ship was attacked by al-Qaeda militants as it rested in port in Aden. | |
| In recent years Yemen's government has been fighting Islamists with the help of US special forces based in Djibouti, on the Horn of Africa. |