Wadi Dawan

Wadi Dawan وَادِي دَوْعَن Raybun
Town
Wadi Dawan
Nickname:  Wadi of Honey
15°15′51″N 48°20′27″E / 15.26417°N 48.34083°E / 15.26417; 48.34083
Country	Yemen
Governorate	Hadhramaut
District	Daw'an District
Area
• Total	3,546 km2 (1,369 sq mi)
Elevation	1,358 m (4,455 ft)
Population  (2004)
• Total	50,992
Time zone	UTC+03:00 (Yemen Standard Time)
Website	https://www.had-wadidoan.info/

Wadi Dawan (Arabic: وَادِي دَوْعَن, romanized: Wādī Daw‘an) is a town and desert valley in central Yemen. Located in Hadhramaut Governorate, it is noted for its mud brick buildings.

Modern history

On January 18, 2008, an ambush attack on Belgian tourists traveling in a convoy through the valley took place. A convoy of four jeeps carrying 15 tourists to Shibam were ambushed by gunmen in a hidden pickup truck.^[1] Two Belgian women, Claudine Van Caillie, of Bruges, 63, and Katrine Glorie, from East Flanders, 54, as well as two Yemenis, a driver and a guide, were killed; another man was also heavily wounded, several others suffered minor wounds.^[2] The tourists were repatriated to Belgium on January 19, except the for injured man, who remained in Sana'a.^[3]

In the wake of the attack, Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Karel De Gucht originally rejected that Al-Qaeda might be responsible, explaining that although the possibility could be avoided, internecine disputes and latent Islamism were also to be taken into account.^[2] A number of arrests were made on January 21.^[4]

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See also

• Hadhramaut Mountains
• List of wadis of Yemen

References

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