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Yemen Tries Gun Ban, Seizure, Destruction in Move to Curb Firearm Deaths
20 September 2007
Reuters AlertNet / IRIN
SANAA — "Guns have caused us to suffer and lead a miserable life," said Ashwaq Mohammed, 27, remembering her husband who was killed four years ago in a shooting incident.
"My husband was waiting for lunch in our yard when his close friend jokingly pointed a pistol at his head. A bullet was fired and ended his life."
Ashwaq, from Sanaa Province, is a mother of five, has no job and depends on her family to survive, but her plight is not uncommon.
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