Gunmen kill 16 in Yemen retirement home

Mar 05, 2016, 19:11

Two gunmen surrounded the home for the elderly in Aden while another four fighters entered the building, witnesses and officials said.

There is no news of the Catholic priest from Kerala who was taken away by unidentified gunmen following Friday's attack on a care home of the elderly in Yemen's Aden, run by the Missionaries of Charity, that left four nuns dead, said an aide of Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief reporters.

One nun who survived and was rescued by locals said that she hid inside a fridge in a store room after hearing a Yemeni guard shouting "run, run". It was later confirmed that only one was Indian though all four "nurses" were nuns from the Missionaries of Charity founded by Mother Teresa.

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Officials at the character said the attackers moved from room to room, handcuffing victims so they couldn't escape and then shooting them in the head.

According to Sunita Kumar, a spokeswoman for the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata, the members of the charity were "absolutely stunned" at the killing.

Yemen's embattled government has been forced out of the capital Sanaa by Iran-allied Houthi rebels and is now based in Aden but struggles to impose its authority even there.

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People stand outside an old people's home after it was attacked by gunmen in the Yemeni port of Aden March 4, 2016.

Yemen's civil war has split the country in two.

Local affiliates of the Islamic State group and al-Qaida have exploited the chaos to expand their reach.

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In a statement addressed to the residents of Aden, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), also known as Ansar al-Sharia, denied "any links to the attack on the elderly care home".

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