Recovered corpses not Europeans

German and Yemeni officials have affirmed that the recovered corpses found at al-Jawf in the north of Yemen were not the missing German citizens. A German forensic team was seen at the investigative authority in Sana’a, where they received the samples and tested them, assisted by Yemeni experts.
 
 “Tests on the five bodies recovered this week showed they were the remains of Somalis, not of the Europeans taken hostage in the north last year,” a Yemeni government official said on Tuesday.
 
Yemeni authorities, with the help of foreign experts, carried out the unspecified tests.
 
The five corpses of foreigners were found by several tribesmen last Saturday, in al-Ajashir, in the borders of Sa’adah and al-Jawf provinces in the north of Yemen. The area is extremely close to where seven Germans, a Britain citizen and a South Korean were kidnapped last June.

 
“The bodies that were found are believed to be Somalis,” explained Hussein Hazeb, Governor of al-Jawf province. Hazeb added that the bodies had been taken to the capital Sana’a for DNA testing to confirm their identities.
 
The governor confirmed that five bodies had been recovered, rather than the four initially reported. Earlier on Monday, a security official told AFP that police had found the bodies of a woman, two men and a child in al-Jawf on Saturday.
 
A tribal leader from the province described how “the bodies were in a state of decomposition, but they appeared to be foreigners.”
 
Seven Germans, a South Korean and a British citizen were kidnapped in Sa’adah province, last June. The bodies of two Germans and the South Korean were recovered shortly after the abduction.
 
Five Germans, a couple and their three children, and the British citizen are still missing.

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