Gunmen Attack Yemen’s Minister of Justice
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SANA, Yemen — Armed attackers shot and wounded Yemen’s minister of justice in an assassination attempt in the capital of this Red Sea state, police said Monday.
The minister, Abdul-Wasei Salam, was flown to a hospital in Wiesbaden, Germany, for treatment after Sunday’s attack, his family said. He was wounded in the eye and the foot, but there was no immediate word on his condition.
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