Four Indian nuns belonging to the Missionaries of Charity have been killed today in an attack on an elderly people's home in the Yemeni Port of Aden.
They are among 16 people shot dead when gunmen stormed the Church-run home and opened fire. The assailants initially told the guard stationed outside that they were visiting their mother.
As well as the four sisters, Reuters news agency reported the dead as two Yemeni women working at the facility, eight elderly residents and a guard.
The motive is as yet unknown but attacks Christians have increased since the country descended into civil war last year.
Yemen's beleaguered government is based in Aden but has struggled to impose its authority there since its forces, backed by Gulf Arab troops, expelled Iran-allied Houthi fighters who still control the country's capital, Sanaa.
A nun who survived the attack told Reuters that she had hid inside a fridge in a storeroom after hearing a guard warning people to run.
The bodies of those killed have been transferred to a clinic supported by medical group Medecins Sans Frontieres, medical sources said.
Recent attacks on Christians include vandalising a cemetery and blowing up an abandoned Catholic church.
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