By Xinhua,
Sana’a : An unidentified gunman shot dead at least eight people outside a village mosque north of the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Friday, local official sources said.
The incident, which occurred in a mosque in the village of Kahal in Amran province some 60 km north of Sanaa after Friday prayers, also wounded dozens of others, many seriously, according to the sources.
However, there are some other sources saying that five people were killed and 12 others wounded, 10 of them seriously.
Witnesses said that the gunmen walked inside the mosque during the weekly sermon and opened fire on worshippers with his assault rifle, and police arrested the attacker after the shooting.
As a poor Arab state facing unrest over unemployment and rising prices in the south and ancestral homeland of al-Qaida chief Osamabin Laden, Yemeni government forces have battled both Shi’ite Muslim rebels in the north and suspected al-Qaida militants, according to media reports.