Wadi Dawan (Arabic: وَادِي دَوْعَن, romanized: Wādī Daw‘an) is a town and desert valley in central Yemen. Located in Hadhramaut Governorate, it is noted for its mud brick buildings.

Wadi Dawan وَادِي دَوْعَن Raybun
Town
Al-Kuraibah
Wadi Dawan Location in Yemen
Coordinates: 15°15′51″N 48°20′27″E
Country	Yemen
Governorate	Hadhramaut
District	Daw'an District
Time zone	UTC+03:00 (Yemen Standard Time)

Modern history

On January 18, 2008, an ambush attack on Belgian tourists traveling in a convoy through the valley took place. A convoy of four jeeps carrying 15 tourists to Shibam were ambushed by gunmen in a hidden pickup truck.[1] Two Belgian women, Claudine Van Caillie, of Bruges, 63, and Katrine Glorie, from East Flanders, 54, as well as two Yemenis, a driver and a guide, were killed; another man was also heavily wounded, several others suffered minor wounds.[2] The tourists were repatriated to Belgium on January 19, except the injured man, who remained in Sana'a.[3]

In the wake of the attack, Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Karel De Gucht originally rejected that Al-Qaeda might be responsible, explaining that although the possibility could be avoided, internecine disputes and latent Islamism also to be taken into account.[2] A number of arrests were made on January 21.[4]

See also

• Hadhramaut Mountains

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Wadi Dawan.

• Yemen Sidr Royal Honey: Wadi Do'an
• The Mud Brick Villages of Wadi Hadramaut and Wadi Dawan
• Wadi Dawan | Yemen | Asia
• YEMEN: WADI DOWAN IN HADRAMOUT (YouTube)
• HADRAMAOUT (Yemen) Wadi Do'An

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