Oil engineer kidnapped

DUBAI - Mountain tribesmen in eastern Yemen have kidnapped an American oil engineer working for the US engineering group Halliburton…

DUBAI - Mountain tribesmen in eastern Yemen have kidnapped an American oil engineer working for the US engineering group Halliburton, demanding compensation for lost land, a company official said yesterday.

The engineer was abducted by the Murad tribe last week from Rig 1 on the Saad alKamel oil field in the Marib region, about 300 km east of the capital, Sauna.

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