Gunman kills three in Yemen suicide attack

A YEMENI shot dead an American and a Canadian working at a US oil firm in the Arab state yesterday and then killed himself, a Yemeni official said.

Another Yemeni man was killed and a second Canadian man was wounded in the attack, carried out by a man working for a contractor of Hunt Oil Company in eastern Marib province, the Interior Ministry official said.

He said Naji al-Kumaim, who committed suicide after the shooting, suffered from depression.