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.

Shabwa province governor, Ali al-Maqqdishi, identified the guard as Jamel Mohammed el-Raaie, and said he was mentally disturbed.

A Yemeni security official said the wounded were taken to a hospital in the Yemeni capital, San’a, for treatment.

The names of the victims were not known. The US embassy in San’a could not be reached for comment.

Occidental Petroleum Corp. is a California-based international company with oil and gas operations in three core areas – the US, Latin America and the Middle East, including Yemen.