Two US missionaries shot dead in their Baptist mission hospital in Yemen were buried in the poor Arab state today in accordance with their wills, Yemeni officials said.
Ms Martha Myers (57) a physician from Montgomery, Alabama, and Mr William Koehn, (60) of Arlington, Texas, an administrator, were buried in the southern town of Jibla where they were killed with a third colleague by a lone gunman yesterday, the officials said.
Officials said the third victim, 53-year-old Ms Kathleen Gariety, a purchasing agent from Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, had also asked in her will to be buried in Yemen and talks were under way over her burial between her family and the US embassy.
A US embassy spokesman declined to comment on the matter.
An American pharmacist was also wounded in the attack, which the Yemeni Interior Ministry described as the work of an "Islamist extremist".
Police quickly arrested 30-year-old Abed Abdel Razzak Kamel, who told police he had attacked the Christian outpost to get closer to God.
The gunman smuggled a rifle into the hospital concealed in his clothing and cradling it like a baby, the Southern Baptist International Mission Board said. The Americans were meeting at the start of the working day when he burst into the room and shot them.