Two Red Cross employees were shot dead in the northern Yemeni province of Amran by an unknown attacker on Wednesday, the international aid group said, in a rare case of violence against humanitarian workers in a five-month war.
The pair were Yemeni nationals and were returning from aid work in the far northern province of Saada, spokesman Adnan Hizam said by telephone.
"Two of our colleagues were shot and killed in their car ...as they were traveling back from Saada to Sanaa," Hizam said from the Yemeni capital.
A statement from the group identified the murdered employees as a field officer and a driver, adding that they believed a lone gunman was responsible but the reason for the attack remained unclear.
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