Sana`a, Nov. 29 (ANTARA News) - The government expressed Wednesday its strong condemnation of the terrible crime led to killing a Saudi diplomat and his Yemeni bodyguard in Sana`a.

A source said that the government condemned strongly the hideous crime made by lawless criminals, who has opened fire on the car of Khaled al-Enizi, an officer in the military attach of the Saudi embassy in Yemen, and his Yemeni bodyguard Mubarak Shaiban, in Bait Zabatan area, a suburb of the capital near Hadda district. The diplomat and his Yemeni guard died instantly.

The security bodies will spare no effort to detect and arrest the attackers and who were behind them in order to be banished strictly, the source said.

Such attacks targeting the security of both countries and the safety of their citizens will make the Yemeni and Saudi leaderships and governments more combined and collaborated in encountering all kinds of criminality and aggression, he added.

The source offered the Yemeni government`s condolence to the Saudi government and people and through them to the family of al-Enizi as well as to the family of Shaiban.

(H-AK)

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