VOL. XLVI

No 12

24-March-2003

YEMEN

Five People Killed In Oil Rig Shootings

Hunt Oil announced on 18 March that five people were killed in shootings at a rig in Yemen owned and operated for the company by Nabors Drilling International. In a statement, Hunt said that one of its employees supervising the rig operations a US citizen, according to news agency reports was shot dead by a Yemeni who then killed two employees of the drilling company, both Canadians. As the attacker fled he shot dead a...