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Four gunmen attacked an old people’s home in the Yemeni port of Aden on Friday, killing at least 15 people, including four Christian nuns from India, local officials and medical sources said.
The gunmen, who first told the guard they were on a visit to their mother, stormed into the home with rifles and opened fire, one local official said. As well as the nuns, the dead included two Yemeni women working at the facility, eight elderly residents and a guard.
The motive of the gunmen was not immediately known. They fled after the attack, the official said.
The bodies of those killed have been transferred to a clinic supported by medical group Medecins Sans Frontieres, medical sources said.
Once a cosmopolitan city home to thriving Hindu and Christian communities, Aden has gone from one of the world’s busiest ports as a key hub of the British Empire to a largely lawless backwater.
Aden’s small Christian population left long ago. Unknown assailants have previously vandalized a Christian cemetery, torched a church and last year blew up an abandoned Catholic church.
ISIS group and al-Qaida affiliates have exploited the lawlessness and created safe havens in the south.
Al-Qaida controls several southern cities and ISIS group has claimed responsibility for a wave of deadly attacks in Aden, including a suicide bombing that killed the city’s governor and several assassination attempts on top officials.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
