Britons injured in oil company shooting in Yemen

A Yemeni guard opened fire today at the employees of an international oil company in Yemen, killing an Indian national and seriously wounding an American, two Britons, a Tunisian and a Yemeni man, security and local officials said.

The shooting took place at the Occidental Petroleum Corp. in the Shabwa province in the south of the country, some 300 miles south of the capital, San’a.