Wadi Dawan
وَادِي دَوْعَن
Raybun
Town
Buildings in Wadi Dawan
Buildings in Wadi Dawan
Wadi Dawan is located in Yemen
Wadi Dawan
Wadi Dawan
Location in Yemen
Coordinates: 15°15′51″N 48°20′27″E / 15.26417°N 48.34083°E / 15.26417; 48.34083
Country Yemen
GovernorateHadhramaut
DistrictDaw'an District
Time zoneUTC+03:00 (Yemen Standard Time)

Wadi Dawan (Arabic: وَادِي دَوْعَن, romanized: Wādī Daw‘an) is a town and desert valley in central Yemen. Located in Hadhramaut Governorate, it is noted for its mud brick buildings.

Modern history

On January 18, 2008, an ambush attack on Belgian tourists traveling in a convoy through the valley took place. A convoy of four jeeps carrying 15 tourists to Shibam were ambushed by gunmen in a hidden pickup truck.[1] Two Belgian women, Claudine Van Caillie, of Bruges, 63, and Katrine Glorie, from East Flanders, 54, as well as two Yemenis, a driver and a guide, were killed; another man was also heavily wounded, several others suffered minor wounds.[2] The tourists were repatriated to Belgium on January 19, except the injured man, who remained in Sana'a.[3]

In the wake of the attack, Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Karel De Gucht originally rejected that Al-Qaeda might be responsible, explaining that although the possibility could be avoided, internecine disputes and latent Islamism also to be taken into account.[2] A number of arrests were made on January 21.[4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "BBC NEWS - Al-Qaeda attack Belgian Tourists". Archived from the original on 2016-09-19. Retrieved 2009-11-14.
  2. 1 2 (in French) Deux Belges tuées au Yémen, Le Soir, January 18, 2008.
  3. ↑ (in French) Yémen: les touristes belges rapatriés, Le Soir, January 19, 2008.
  4. ↑ (in French) Plusieurs suspects arrêtés au Yémen, Le Soir, January 21, 2008.
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