Yemen Times: Yemeni tribe attacks position for border demarcation with Saudi Arabia
Yemen-Saudi Arabia, Politics, 9/3/2002

The Yemen Times said yesterday that a Yemeni tribe that opposes the demarcation of borders between Yemen and Saudi Arabia launched an attack against a position for a German company working for installing border demarcation signs on the border line which separates the two states. This attack resulted in wounding five peoples.

The Yemeni daily explained that the attack targeted a position of the German company Hanza Luftbilit on Thursday, and was carried out by armed gunmen belonging to Duhm al-Hamraa ( Red horses) tribe in al-Jouf province and they destroyed equipment owned by the German company and this resulted in a "temporary suspension of the demarcating process."

According to the paper three of the tribe's men were strongly wounded in what expected to be a clash with the Yemeni borders guards who guard the German company. Three local employees in the company were wounded.

One of the chieftain of Duhm al-Hamraa tribe, Yahya al-Sha'if, said that the "tribe refuses to install border demarcations inside its territories which extend along the border from Rayyan area to the Ghreimi area near al-Buqaa because demarcating this will place their lands into the Saudi side."

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