Adnan Al-Muhya, a high-ranking officer of Yemen’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID), was shot and killed by unidentified masked gunmen in the Al-Jamhouri neighborhood of Taiz province on Tuesday. Al-Muhya was spearheading the inquiry into the recent murder of Moayad Hameidi, the director of the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) office in Taiz. Hameidi was ambushed by unknown assailants on motorcycles outside a restaurant in At Turbah.
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The local government has yet to identify suspects or a clear motive behind Al-Muhya’s assassination. His death hampers the ongoing investigation into the killing of the WFP official. Yemen continues to be a hotbed for targeted killings of security personnel and government representatives as its devastating civil war rages on for nearly a decade.
Since 2014, Yemen has been caught in a violent civil war, initiated when the Iran-backed Houthi militia seized several northern cities and expelled the internationally backed Yemeni government from the capital, Sanaa.