He asked him to pay his debts.. A citizen was killed by a tribal sheikh from Saada in Sana'a

A citizen in his sixties, who works as a qat seller, was killed today, Sunday, by a tribal sheikh from Saada inside his home in the capital, Sana’a.

Informed sources said that Hajj Mahmoud Al-Naamani, who works as a qat seller in Al-Shaif Market in Al-Jarf neighborhood, north of Sana'a, was killed by bullets from a sheikh from Sa'dah named Salem Saleh Abdullah Shamlan after he demanded that he pay off the debts he owed for buying qat, which amounted to more than one million Yemeni riyals.

The sources explained that Al-Naamani called the sheikh and asked him to pay the debt he owed. He asked him to come to his house to pay it, and to bring a bag of qat. After the evening prayer, he went to the sheikh’s house to fulfill his request. When he arrived, the sheikh took the qat from him and shot him five times in the thighs, leaving him to bleed to death.

The sources indicated that after committing the crime, the sheikh dragged him out of the courtyard gate, before a number of the neighborhood residents took him to a hospital north of the capital. On Sunday morning, he died in the hospital from his injuries.

According to the sources, the sheikh was arrested, while the body of Hajj Al-Naamani is still in the hospital’s refrigerator.

It is noteworthy that Shamlan is from Saada Governorate, Talh Wa’ila District, while the victim, Ahmed Al-Naamani, is from Wasab in Dhamar Governorate.

This crime was met with great condemnation, amid demands for the de facto Houthi authority to investigate the crime, so that the killer receives his deterrent punishment for this heinous crime.