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| 'Sectarian' clashes kill nine in northern Yemen |
| 2013-12-21 |
| [Al Ahram] Nine people have been killed in sectarian fighting that was ongoing Friday in northern Yemen between Shiite Houthis and Sunni Islamists backed by local tribes, a tribal source said. Houthis have been battling the Sanaa regime for nearly a decade in the remote Saada province, but the outbreak of fighting with Sunni Death Eaters has deepened the sectarian dimension of the unrest. "Seven Huthis and two rustics were killed on Thursday in the festivities, which were continuing intermittently," particularly in the Kitaf area in the north of Saada and in neighbouring Amran province, the source told AFP. |
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