Islamic militant kills three American doctors in Yemen

A YEMENI shot dead three American doctors and critically wounded a US pharmacist yesterday at a missionary hospital in the south of the impoverished country.

Yemeni officials named the gunman as 32-year-old Abed Abdel Razzak Kamel and said he was an Islamist militant who had told police after his arrest that he had shot the two men and two women to "cleanse his religion and get closer to Allah."

The US embassy confirmed the victims were US citizens and said they were working at the Jibla Baptist hospital in Ebb province, some 105 miles south of the capital Sanaa.