Four Yemenis jailed for embassy attack

A court in the Yemeni capital, Sana'a, has convicted four Yemeni men of a bomb attack last October on the British embassy and sentenced them to between four and 15 years in prison.

The attack on the British embassy destroyed a generator and blew out windows, but caused no injuries.

It came a day after 17 US sailors were killed in an apparent suicide bomb attack on the American warship, the USS Cole, in the port of Aden.

Two of the defendants, who pleaded guilty, said they attacked the embassy in a show of solidarity with the Palestinians.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service