Yemen school student identified as British envoy’s attacker

Sanaa, April 27 (IANS/AKI) A school student carried out Monday’s failed assassination attempt on the British ambassador to Yemen, officials said Tuesday.

Omar Ali al-Salawi, 20, a high school student who hails from Taiz town, carried out the suicide bombing, which bore the hallmarks of an Al Qaeda attack, al-Masdar website quoted the interior ministry as saying.

The website also published a photo of the bomber’s head, which was retrieved from the roof of a house some 20 metres away from the scene of the attack.

The bomber targeted the armoured car in which British ambassador to Yemen Tim Torlot was going on his way to work Monday.

Al-Salawi had attended an Al Qaeda training camp in Yemen’s Mareb province, police said.

–IANS/AKI