TAIZ: Fighting between Yemen's government forces and the country's Ansar Allah group killed more than 60 people on Saturday, including civilians, medical and military sources said. The renewed clashes in Yemen's southwest over control of a gateway to the Red Sea came after Friday saw some of the deadliest fighting in years, following the collapse in July of a 2022 ceasefire.
According to three Yemeni military sources, 26 government troops were killed during several hours of fighting in the country's southwest, while medical and military sources from the group said 31 fighters were killed. One medical source in the government-held city of Taiz said a missile strike also killed six civilians travelling by bus and wounded seven others.
In Hays district, 68 kilometres northwest of Taiz towards the Red Sea coast, journalists saw government forces being ferried to the front lines in pickup trucks, some carrying assault rifles and others with rocket-propelled grenades slung over their shoulders. On Friday, the fighting in Yemen killed 129 people. A military official said on Saturday that three air strikes by Saudi Arabia had targeted positions recently captured by the Ansar Allah group in Taiz. — AFP
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