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Two gunmen shot dead on Sunday a US citizen who worked at a language school in Yemen's second city of Taiz, a security  official said.

The assailants rode a motorbike in their attack on the man, who was the deputy directer of a Swedish language centre in the city, the official said on condition of anonymity, adding they fled the scene after the shooting.

[Source: AFP]

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