Gulf | Yemen  Sponsored By  Yemen gunmen ‘kidnap Swiss Red Cross
worker’  Gunmen beat two Yemenis accompanying him when they
attempted to stop the kidnapping    • AFP   • Published: 17:29
May 13, 2013   • Gulf News  Aden: Tribal gunmen kidnapped on
Monday a Swiss man working for the International Committee of
the Red Cross in southern Yemen, a local pro-government militia
leader said.  The gunmen who belong to Al Marakisha tribe
kidnapped the man in the city of Jaar, in Abyan province, said
Hussain Al Wahayshi, a local commander of the Popular Resistance
Committees.  Gunmen from the same tribe briefly held two Indian
ICRC staff last week.  Witnesses said the gunmen intercepted a
car transporting the Swiss man and forced him to step out before
they took him to an unknown destination.  Al Wahayshi said two
Yemenis, including the driver, accompanying the Swiss man were
ordered by the captors to leave. Gunmen beat them when they
attempted to block the kidnapping, he added.  Last Wednesday,
armed tribesmen briefly