A senior military commander loyal to the Islah Party, (the Yemeni branch of the Muslim Brotherhood), was assassinated in his apartment in the Egyptian capital, the Yemeni embassy loyal to the Saudi-led coalition in Cairo said in a statement on Sunday.
According to the statement, Major General Hassan bin Jalal al-Obaidi, Director of the Military Industrialization Department in the pro-coalition Ministry of Defense, was found murdered in his Cairo apartment.
It added that the embassy has assigned specialists to the field, communicated with all relevant security authorities in Egypt, and will follow up on investigations to reach the truth of the incident.
The embassy said it is following the results of the investigations and forensic autopsies, requesting all media outlets to be “accurate in everything published” and not to be drawn into rumors until the final results are released by the competent authorities.
Meanwhile, activists on social media accused an intelligence agency affiliated with one of the coalition countries of carrying out the assassination of Major General Al-Obaidi.
They said this assassination was part of a series of previous liquidations carried out by the UAE in Aden.