The officials told The Associated Press Tuesday that the instructor works for an English language institute in Sanaa and that he was taken from his house to an undisclosed location. “Witnesses told a different story, saying armed men in civilian clothes seized the man from a language school and forced him into a vehicle”.
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Top officials of the Shiite Houthi armed group attended a public ceremony organized by the group in the port city to mark the second year anniversary of September 21, the date that the group seized power after storming the capital Sanaa and other northern provinces in 2014.
There were conflicting reports on where the teacher was taken.
United Nations -sponsored talks to try to end the fighting that has killed more than 10,000 people collapsed in failure last month and the Houthi movement and allied forces loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh resumed shelling into neighboring Saudi Arabia.
Local security officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Yemen’s Houthi group said aircraft of an Arab coalition bombed a security compound in the capital Sanaa where suspected al Qaeda militants and foreigners accused of spying, including Americans, are held. The Houthis accuse the US of arming and supporting the Saudi-backed coalition which has intervened in the conflict to aid Yemeni government forces.
Details are still not totally clear on who was slain, but the Houthis reported civilians from the area surrounding the building itself were wounded in the strike.
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Oman had previously facilitated the release of two other Americans held by the Houthis.
