Target spanish Tourists Non-fatal injuries 12 Start date July 2, 2007 Perpetrator Al-Qaeda Location Ma'rib | Attack type Suicide car bombing Perpetrators Al-Qaeda Location Ma'rib, Yemen Total number of deaths 10 | |
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Similar 2008 attack on tourists in Yemen, 2009 Yemeni tourist att, 2014 Rada' bombings, 2014 Ibb bombing, January 2015 Sana'a b | ||
The 2007 Yemen tourist attack was a suicide car bomb attack on Spanish tourists visiting the Queen of Sheba temple in Mareb, Ma'rib Governorate on July 2, 2007.
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A member of Al-Qaeda rammed an explosive-laden car into a tourist convoy killing 8 Spanish tourists, 2 Yemeni Drivers, and injuring 12.
Aftermath
On August 8, four militants died in a Yemeni security forces raid near Mareb, one of them Kassem al-Raimi, who was the top al-Qaeda operative who masterminded the attacks. Raimi was involved in other operations and was one of 13 convicted prisoners who escaped from a Sanaa prison in 2006.
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