GAZA: A Palestinian man died yesterday after he was shot by Israeli troops while fishing on the beach in the Gaza Strip, said Hamas officials, while an Israeli military spokeswoman said the man was shot when he approached the border fence.
Israeli army patrols deem the Gaza border area off limits because militants try to attack them by planting explosive devices or shooting at them.
Officials from Hamas, which rules the coastal enclave, said the 22-year-old man was fishing with his brother on Friday when he was shot.
Yemen bomber kills self, hurts four
ADEN: A suicide bomber killed himself and wounded four others in south Yemen yesterday in an attempt to assassinate a government official who had targeted Al Qaeda militants, a security source said.
The attacker walked up to the parked car of Mohammed Aidarous, who heads a “popular committee” of tribal volunteers who helped the army oust militants from the town of Lawdar in Abyan province this year.
Aidarous, now the local government official in charge of Lawdar, was not in the vehicle but two people in the car and two passers-by were hurt in the blast, the source said. Yemen has been in turmoil since an uprising against Ali Abdullah Saleh.
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