A wedding party in Yemen turned into a bloodbath Friday when a guest wildly dancing to “Gangnam Style” with an AK-47 accidentally sprayed fire into the crowd, killing three guests.
A video of the grisly incident, apparently taken on a cellphone, went viral Friday. It shows several men dancing to the song by South Korean sensation Psy. When the song reaches its chorus, the sound of rapid machine-gun fire is heard amid screams.
One man is shown sprawled on the floor, his arms extended at his side and blood covering the ground. It ends in a chaotic scene with at least two other people laying wounded or dying on the floor and several guests running from the dance area.
Yemen has been plagued for decades by a tradition of firing weapons in the air during wedding celebrations. Grooms often pose for photos on their wedding day with ornamental rifles.
But in recent years, the Sana’a government has tried to crack down because guests were using heavier artillery, including assault rifles, rocket or grenades launchers and anti-aircraft mortars.
In 2009 a villager in Ga’afaria killed two women, 15 and 20, and wounded four others, including the bride, with an AK-47 in an unexplained rampage.