Yemen: six policemen arrested

The Yemeni police announced that it had arrested 6 officers working at the Sanaa airport security department in the framework of investigations in the high-jacking operation of a plane for the Yemeni airlines on Tuesday.

News reports said that the police explained that the authorities investigate the conditions that enabled Muhammad Yahya Ali Sattar of seating in the plane ( Boeing 727) with a weapon. That plane which was in an internal flight between Sanaa and Taez loading 91 passengers including the US ambassador in Sanaa Barbara Budin.

The reports added that other two civil servants were arrested at Sanaa municipality in the framework of the investigations which showed that the high-jacker had withdrawn on January 8 all his account at his special bank account.

Security sources in Sanaa said that several military men and political security officials on Thursday headed for Djibouti to receive the Yemeni plane.

An investigation committee chaired by the Yemeni minister of the Interior Hussein Arab and the chairman of the political security department Ghaleb al-Qamash besides a group of military leaders will interrogate the kidnapper.