Killing Of British Tourists In Yemen
On December 28, 1998, 16 tourists (12 Britons, two Americans, and two Australians) were kidnapped in Abyan Governorate, Yemen. They had been travelling in a convoy of five vehicles when they were attacked; a British tourist and a Yemeni guide escaped while the kidnappers took the hostages to al-Wadi'a, 250 miles south of Sana'a.
The next day, 200 Yemeni troops surrounded the kidnappers and the hostages in Al Wade'a District. Yemeni troops then stormed the kidnappers' hideout, and in the resulting gunbattle four hostages were killed and two were injured. Two kidnappers were killed and four arrested. The dead hostages were Britons Margaret Whitehouse, Ruth Williamson, and Peter Rowe, and Australian Andrew Thirsk.
Two kidnappers were also killed in the gunbattle, and four arrested. The men belonged to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army.
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