Yemeni separatist rebels hijack lorry carrying £200m in banknotes
![]() 1721 Wednesday, 17 June, 2020, 00:45 A lorry containing Yemeni currency worth £200 million was hijacked and taken “for safe keeping” by a rival faction in the country’s civil war, in the latest skirmish in the “battle of the banknotes”. |
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