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By Mohammed Ghobari SANAA (Reuters) - Gunmen shot dead a Frenchman working as a security agent for the EU mission in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Monday, France announced, as the army waged an offensive against al Qaeda in the south of the country. Westerners have frequently been attacked in Yemen, an impoverished U.S.-allied country fighting Islamist militancy, southern secessionists, tribal conflicts and a Shi'ite Muslim rebellion in the north. Yemen's Interior Ministry confirmed Monday's attack, but said only that a "foreigner" had been killed in the capital and two other people wounded in the shooting. "The president condemns in the strongest terms the attack today in Sanaa, Yemen against two of our countrymen, which cost one his life and very seriously injured the second," French President Francois Hollande's office said in a statement.More...