Abdallah al-Hubal

Abdallah al-Hubal (1955 – August 16, 1998 ) was a Yemeni serial killer.

After killing seven people in 1990 after the Yemeni reunion, he was imprisoned in Aden, but was able to flee for a short time. He was not found until the beginning of August 1998, when he killed a couple and three other people in Bayt al-Faqīh. The latter were, according to the police, witnesses of the first two murders. On August 16, 1998, al-Hubal engaged in a firefight with the police killing one policeman and injuring several others before being shot himself.

Literature

 * Murakami, Peter and Julia: Lexikon der Serienmörder 450 Fallstudien einer pathologischen Tötungsart. 7. Auflage, Ullstein Taschenbuch, München 2001, ISBN 3-548-35935-3.