Sana'a, Yemen  - A villager opened fire indiscriminately during his daughter's wedding party in southern Yemen on Friday, killing two young women and injuring four others including the bride, police sources said.

The gunman, identified as Hamoud Ahmed Obaid, rampaged with an AK- 47 rifle during the ceremony in the Ga'afaria village of the southern Dalea province, the sources told the German Press Agency dpa.

The two victims, aged 15 and 20, were killed on spot, and four others were rushed to hospitals in a nearby town.

Police arrested the assailant, and he was being interrogated, they said. His motives were not immediately clear.

Indiscriminate shooting rampages happen frequently in this impoverished Arabian Peninsula country.

Last May a man went on a shooting spree outside a village mosque in north-western Yemen, killing ten people. He was executed by a firing squad last month after a court sentenced him to death. dpa