almotamar.net - A security official said Sunday security authorities in Shabwa governorate have launched an intensive security campaign for chasing outlaws holding a German engineer working for the Yemeni Company of the natural gas. They have kidnapped him and two Yemeni employees before noon of Sunday.

An official at the Yemeni Company for Natural Gas mentioned that gunmen have kidnapped Sunday a German engineer working for it t the gas exportation terminal and with him two Yemeni employees.

While the Islah website in Yemen attributed to well-informed sources as saying that security forces are stationed at Al Khabar crossroads in precaution that the kidnappers pass by it, the same website expected that the kidnappers might take the hostages to the surrounding mountains.