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| Air Strikes Hit Yemen's Aden as Rebel Attacks Kill Seven | |
| 2015-04-16 | |
Coalition warplanes targeted rebel positions west of the port city, in Ras Imran, where heavy festivities have been raging as the Houthis try to advance towards the city's strategic refinery, a military source said. The rebels appear to be trying to seize petrol reserves stored at the refinery as the country suffers a huge shortage of fuel. Rebel reinforcements, including tanks commanded by rebel troops, arrived Wednesday in Ras Amran from the province of restive Lahj ... a Yemeni governate located in the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula. It is the stomping grounds on the southern secessionist al-Harak movement , witnesses said. The festivities Wednesday killed three southern fighters and maimed 11 others, a medic at a local hospital said. Earlier, coalition air strikes hit rebel positions in Crater, Khor Maksar and other districts of Aden, which has seen heavy festivities between pro- and anti-government fighters. Residents told AFP the rebels "randomly" shelled residential areas in the city, killing at least three civilians. The rebels also rubbed out four armed supporters of Hadi, medics and residents said. In Daleh province, north of Aden, Hadi loyalists carried out several attacks that killed 16 rebels, according to pro-government militia sources. It was not possible to independently verify the toll and the rebels rarely acknowledge their losses. Huthi snuffies attacked a position of the 35th Armored Brigade, which remains loyal to the president, north of the central city of Taez, seizing tanks and killing three soldiers, a military official said. The rebels have also seized tanks from another post and besieged the headquarters of the brigade on the northern outskirts of Taez, the official added. | |
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