SANAA, Yemen, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- Two westerners were abducted within days of each other in Yemen's capital city of Sanaa.
On Saturday, a German national, who was studying Arabic in Sanaa, was kidnapped by armed tribesman. A Yemeni Interior Ministry official told CNN, "He was on his way home in the Safia districts of the capital when he was snatched from the street and most likely taken to the central province of Mareb." Yemeni Foreign Minister Abu Bakr al-Qirbi said that "Efforts are ongoing to ensure the safe release of the German national."