Education Official Assassinated by Gunmen in Yemen's Aden
ADEN (Dispatches) – Unknown gunmen opened fire and shot dead an official of Yemen's Education Ministry in the southern port city of Aden on Sunday, a security official told Xinhua.
The security official, who asked to remain anonymous, said that "masked gunmen assassinated Ramzi Sagheer, director of a private school and a member of the education department in Aden province."
The source said that the assailants targeted Ramzi with a barrage of bullets fired from silenced weapons while he was leaving his own private school in Mansourah district of Aden.
"Ramzi was an active official in the educational field and participated in many campaigns about the importance of teaching women in Yemen," the security source said.
Members of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) arrived at the scene and launched an investigation.
No claim of responsibility for the assassination incident was immediately made.
However, police sources in Aden blamed militants of the Yemen-based al-Qaida branch (AQAP) and the Daesh terrorist group for being behind such attacks.
Aden is where the Saudi-backed government has been based since 2015.
For the past two years, the AQAP and other extremist groups have been active in southern Yemen.
The impoverished Arab country has been locked into a Saudi-led war since 2015.
Saudi Arabia and a number of its regional allies launched a devastating military campaign against Yemen in March 2015, with the aim of bringing the government of Hadi back to power and crushing the country’s popular Houthi Ansarullah movement.
Some 15,000 Yemenis have been killed and thousands more injured since the onset of the Saudi-led aggression.
More than 2,200 others have died of cholera, and the crisis has triggered what the United Nations has described as the world's worst humanitarian disaster.
The security official, who asked to remain anonymous, said that "masked gunmen assassinated Ramzi Sagheer, director of a private school and a member of the education department in Aden province."
The source said that the assailants targeted Ramzi with a barrage of bullets fired from silenced weapons while he was leaving his own private school in Mansourah district of Aden.
"Ramzi was an active official in the educational field and participated in many campaigns about the importance of teaching women in Yemen," the security source said.
Members of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) arrived at the scene and launched an investigation.
No claim of responsibility for the assassination incident was immediately made.
However, police sources in Aden blamed militants of the Yemen-based al-Qaida branch (AQAP) and the Daesh terrorist group for being behind such attacks.
Aden is where the Saudi-backed government has been based since 2015.
For the past two years, the AQAP and other extremist groups have been active in southern Yemen.
The impoverished Arab country has been locked into a Saudi-led war since 2015.
Saudi Arabia and a number of its regional allies launched a devastating military campaign against Yemen in March 2015, with the aim of bringing the government of Hadi back to power and crushing the country’s popular Houthi Ansarullah movement.
Some 15,000 Yemenis have been killed and thousands more injured since the onset of the Saudi-led aggression.
More than 2,200 others have died of cholera, and the crisis has triggered what the United Nations has described as the world's worst humanitarian disaster.