ADEN, Yemen, Aug. 30 (Xinhua) -- Some unidentified gunmen opened fire and killed a politician of Yemen's Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated Islah party in the country's southern port city of Aden on Sunday, a security official told Xinhua.
The local security source said on condition of anonymity that "a group unidentified gunmen assassinated Awad Fadaaq, a leading politician of the Islamic Islah party in Aden province."
He added that "the masked gunmen rained Fadaaq's body with a barrage of bullets while he was walking through a main street in Aden's neighborhood of Mansourah."
Local residents confirmed that Fadaaq was immediately taken to the nearest hospital but doctors there declared him dead.
Police forces arrived at the area and launched an investigation trying to ascertain if the attack was carried out by terror elements or it was a criminal incident.
Aden is considered Yemen's temporary capital where the Saudi-backed Yemeni government has been based since 2015.
The impoverished Arab country has been locked in a civil war since late 2014, when the Houthi rebels overran much of the country and seized all northern provinces, including the capital Sanaa. Enditem
