A British expat was killed by a suspected terrorist car bomb in Yemen yesterday.
David Mockett, from Plymouth, was killed instantly when a bomb planted under the driver’s seat of his sports utility vehicle blew up as he drove through the southern port city of Aden.
Last night his wife, Cynthia, revealed her fears the blast was so powerful she will not have a body to bury. She said: “My husband went up in flames. I just wish I had something to bury - but I don’t think I will.”
Mr Mockett worked as a marine surveyor for the Arab Company for Inspection and Marine Consulting. He had recently returned from the city of Hodeida on Yemen’s west coast and his car exploded after he left the hotel where he was staying.
Officials blame a rise in violence in southern Yemen on al-Qaeda-linked militants they say are taking advantage of the country’s political turmoil.
In April 2010 the British ambassador to Yemen narrowly escaped being killed when a car bomb hit his convoy in Sana’a.
And last October a rocket-propelled grenade hit an embassy car in Sana’a, wounding three people, including a diplomat. - Daily Mail