Yemeni medical sources in Taiz reported today, Friday, that an official of the World Food Program was assassinated in southern Taiz, by gunmen on a motorcycle, this Friday noon.

Eyewitnesses said that gunmen on a motorcycle fired a barrage of bullets at the head of the World Food Program team, Muayad Hamidi, in the city of Turbah, killing him as soon as he left a restaurant in the city.

While the sources confirmed that the assassination took place near the al-Shamayatain Security Department in the city, after which Hamid was transferred to Khalifa Hospital in al-Turbah.

Muayad Hamidi, a Jordanian national, had arrived in the city a few days ago, to start exercising his duties as head of the program in the city.

Security campaign to apprehend the perpetrators

For his part, the head of the Presidential Leadership Council, Rashad al-Alimi, directed the pursuit of the elements involved in the assassination of the UN employee and the wounding of others in the city of Turbah.

He contacted the governor of Taiz governorate, who informed him of preliminary information indicating the identification of the perpetrators of the attack and the measures taken to prosecute the perpetrators.

It is noteworthy that this is the second international official to be assassinated in Taiz since April 2018, when a Lebanese employee working for the Red Cross was killed by unknown gunmen in the Al-Dabab area at the southwestern entrance to the city of Taiz.

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