Yemeni photographer killed in shelling

ADEN: A Yemeni photographer and videographer who contributed to AFP, Abdullah al Qadry, was killed in shelling in the centre of the country, his colleagues said.

Qadry died while on assignment for Yemen’s Belqees television, the station said. A security source said Ansarullah fighters were behind the shelling. Three other journalists were also wounded in the shelling of Qaniyah, near the border between Marib and Baida provinces in the centre of the country. Qadry died from a shrapnel wound to the neck, according to a doctor at the hospital to which he was evacuated.

A journalist in his thirties, he had been married for a year and had one child. Journalists who worked with Qadry praised his courage and determination.

Yemeni AFP photographer Saleh al Obeidi was seriously injured in April 2017 during rebel bombing near Mokha in the country’s southwest.