S Korean officials attacked while investigating bombing

A South Korean delegation investigating a suicide bombing that killed four of its nationals on March 15 itself became the target of bombers, officials in Seoul said, adding that no one was hurt in the new attack.South Korean officials and relatives visiting Yemen to investigate a bombing which killed four Koreans came under attack themselves on Wednesday, a Seoul foreign ministry official told AFP. "Vehicles carrying our government officials and bereaved family members came under a terrorist attack today. Nobody was harmed," said the official handling consular affairs. Yonhap news agency described the incident as a bomb attack but said only a vehicle was damaged. "The attack came when our officials and the relatives of the victims were heading for an airport after their on-the-spot investigation at the bombing site," another foreign ministry official told AFP on condition of anonymity. She declined to give further details, saying a briefing would be held later. In Yemen, security officials and eyewitnesses said that a suicide attacker targeted one of the Koreans' vehicles on the way to the airport in the capital Sanaa, and confirmed that no one was hurt. The four Korean tourists were killed on Sunday while watching the sun set over the historic mud-brick eastern city of Shibam. Their local guide was also killed. South Korea said it had been notified by Yemeni authorities that Al-Qaeda was to blame. The Seoul government sent a four-person investigative team to Yemen, made up of two foreign ministry officials as well as representatives of the national police and the intelligence agency. Some relatives travelled with them.