LONDON: The United Kingdom on Tuesday evacuated all staff from its embassy in Yemen due to increased security concerns, the UK Foreign Office said.
The British embassy staff were “temporarily withdrawn to the UK” on Tuesday, Â the Foreign Office said in a statement.
The move comes shortly after the US State Department on Tuesday told its citizens in Yemen to leave the country immediately due to the threat of “terrorist attacks”. The State Department also said it had ordered non-essential US government staff in Yemen to leave the country.
The new measures followed a heightened security warning from Washington on Friday that prompted the closure of several Western embassies in Yemen and several US missions across the Middle East and Africa.
