2007 Marib suicide car bombing

The 2007 Yemen tourist attack was a suicide car bomb attack on Spanish tourists visiting the Queen of Sheba temple in Marib, Marib Governorate on July 2, 2007. No group has claimed responsibility for the attacks.

Details
On 2 July 2007, an unknown militant rammed an explosive-laden car into a tourist convoy killing 8 Spanish tourists, 2 Yemeni drivers, and injuring 12.

Aftermath
On August 8, four militants died in a Yemeni military raid near Mareb, one of them Kassem al-Raimi, who allegedly masterminded the attacks. According to Yemeni military officials, Raimi was a "top Al-Qaeda operative" involved in other operations and was one of the 13 prisoners who escaped from a Sanaa prison in 2006.