Campaign releasing two Chinese experts

SHABWA, May 17 (Saba) - Shabwa Governor Ali
al-Ahmedi said on Monday that a security campaign had headed for the Hada district,
Shabwa,
to release two Chinese experts and two Yemeni soldiers and two drivers who were
abducted on Sunday. He urged the kidnappers to free the six abductees without
conditions and
hand themselves to the authorities. The governor said the kidnappers have been
identified as people from the Laqmoush tribe. Earlier he was quoted by the Almotamar
website
as saying that a mediation was underway to release the two Chinese experts who were
abducted in the eastern province of Shabwa on Sunday. The foreigners were working
for
a Chinese petroleum firm operating at the Almasila oil field. The kidnapping, the
first this year, took place in the district of Azzan and the hostages were taken to
the
mountainous Hada area, according to the website. The two cars carrying the six
people were intercepted by armed people from the Laqmoush tribe when one of the
experts was
going to Mukalla for a vacation and the second heading to his workplace after ending
his vacation in Mukalla. According to the website, the kidnapping came to pressure
the
authorities to take legal measures or traditional arbitration after a tribesman from
the clan was shot and injured at a security checkpoint almost a month ago. FR