Two Chinese oil company workers along with four Yemeni escorts were temporarily detained by Yemeni armed tribesmen in southeastern province of Shabwa on Sunday, Chinese Ambassador to Yemen Liu Denglin said. Liu said they were temporarily detained over a dispute between the tribesmen and two of the four Yemeni security escorts, and that the two Chinese oil workers are now in a safe condition. The two Chinese workers are working with Zhongyuan Oil Field Company, according to the ambassador. Earlier, a senior security official in the province of Shabwa told Xinhua by phone that Yemeni security escorts who were accompanying two Chinese workers were kidnapped in the area of al- Kamoush tribe, adjacent to al-Lahya district. 