SANAA, Oct 29 (Reuters) – Yemeni police move in to halt a
firework display at a wedding party near the U.S Embassy in
Sanaa on Monday that triggered rumours of an attack on the
mission, a security guard and a Yemeni diplomat in Washington
said.
They said security guards around the mission in Sanaa fired
some shots in the air.
“The U.S. Embassy in Sanaa was not attacked, nor was there
any bombing in the vicinity of the Embassy,” said Mohammed
al-Basha, a spokesman for the Yemeni embassy in Washington in a
twitter message.
He said some people who had set off the fireworks were
arrested.
A security warning in August forced the United States and
other Western countries to close their missions in Yemen.
The U.S. Embassy had long been a target of Islamist
militants in Yemen, where Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
(AQAP), one of the most active branches of the network founded
by Osama bin Laden, is based.
(Reporting by Abdul-Rahman al-Ansi, Khaled Abdullah in Sanaa
and Mohammed Mokhashaf in Aden, Writing by Sami Aboudi; editing
by Ralph Boulton)
