Qurashi Succumbed to Headshot, Assassinated after Return to Yemen from Exile in Syria at Presidential Invitation
Brandon Sun SAN’A, Yemen – A Yemeni opposition member shot in the head after returning from 32 years in exile died Wednesday from his wounds, his son said. Abdel-Raqib al-Qershi fled from Yemen in 1978 after he and his family were accused of leading a rebellion against the government and killing tribal leaders…Al-Qershi’s son, Awad, said his father had returned to San’a in May following an offer of amnesty from the country’s president. A month later, he was shot in the head as he walked out of a local mosque with his sons. The authorities named three suspects in the assassination attempt, but none have been arrested. After an emergency operation in Yemen, Al-Qershi was flown to Syria for further medical treatment where he died.
Original Post: President Saleh invited Abdalrguib Qurashi who was in exile in Syria for 30 years, to return to Yemen under his protection. Last month, Qurashi was shot in the head after returning from prayers in Sana’a, fell into a coma, was transferred to Syria for medical treatment and died today. Qurashi was a leader in the Nasserite party involved in a 1978 assassination attempt on Saleh. Many were killed and periodically the party asks for the location of the graves.
Al-Sahwa: Died Wednesday morning in a hospital in the Syrian capital Damascus, the former leader of Nazareth fighter Abdalrguib Qurashi, died Baltalegp firearms that penetrated his head in an assassination attempt in the capital Sana’a last month entered in the coma .
وكان قد تم نقل القرشي مطلع الشهر الحالي إلى دمشق نتيجة تليف كبير بالدماغ، بعد إجراء عملية جراحية بمستشفى الشرطة العام بصنعاء. He had been moved Qurashi earlier this month to Damascus as a result of cirrhosis of the large brain, after surgery the General Police Hospital in Sana’a.
وتعرض القرشي الشهر الماضي لمحاولة اغتيال أثناء عودته من أداء صلاة الجمعة في بوابة فندق تاج سبأ وسط العاصمة صنعاء حيث أطلق عليه مجهولون طلقة نارية أصابته في الرأس ، وهو برفقة أولاده. Qurashi presented last month to an assassination attempt while returning from Friday prayers at the gate of the Taj Sheba Hotel, center of the capital Sanaa where he was shot by unknown assailants hit him in the head, which is accompanied by his children.
وقال نجله معتز في تصريح سابق لـ(الوحدوي نت) أن والده عاد إلى الوطن “بوجه الرئيس وحمايته ولم نكن نتوقع أن يحدث ذلك”. And his son said Moataz in an earlier statement for (unitary Net) that his father returned to the homeland, “the president and general protection and we did not expect that to happen.”
وعاد القرشي إلى اليمن نهاية مايو الماضي بدعوة وحماية رئيس الجمهورية بعد غياب دام لأكثر من ثلاثة عقود في المنفى القسري بالجمهورية العربية السورية الشقيقة. Qurashi and returned to Yemen at the end of last May at the invitation and the protection of the President of the Republic after an absence of more than three decades in forced exile of the sisterly Syrian Arab Republic.
