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Summary
Twin attacks on Western targets in Yemen's capital, Sanaa, have left one person dead and at least four injured. Militants fired a rocket at a British embassy car, slightly injuring one staff member as well as bystanders. In the other incident, a security guard at an Austrian gas company near Sanaa opened fire killing a French contractor and badly injuring a UK contractor. Yemen has seen a string of militant attacks on Western targets. The armoured UK embassy car was carrying the deputy chief of the British mission in Yemen when it was hit by shrapnel from the blast. UK Foreign Secretary William Hague described the attack as shameful. This morning's attack... highlights the risks our diplomats face working for Britain's interests abroad, he said. Yemen's President Ali Abdallah Saleh later met the British ambassador Tim Torlot to discuss the attack.
