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    March 18, 2012

American Language Teacher Shot Dead in Yemen

   VOA News
   Map of Zinjibar and Taiz in Yemen

   An American language teacher has been shot dead in his car in Yemen.
   Security officials say two gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire on the
   teacher Sunday in the city of Taez.
   The victim has not been identified and no one has yet claimed
   responsibility for the attack.
   The killing comes three days after a Swiss language teacher was
   kidnapped in Yemen's port town of Hodeida. It is not clear who abducted
   the woman, and there is no apparent motive.
   Yemen has fallen into chaos since last year when protests forced then
   president Ali Abdullah Saleh to flee the country. Al-Qaida militants
   have taken advantage of the situation and seized control of a number of
   towns.

   Some information for this report was provided by AP, AFP and Reuters.

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