Deadly
car bombs hit Yemen, day after almost 200 killed
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[July 08, 2015]
By Mohammed Ghobari
SANAA (Reuters) - Two deadly car bombs hit
the capital Sanaa and a southern city in Yemen on Tuesday, state news
agency Saba reported, a day after air strike and clashes killed almost
200 people nationwide.
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Islamic State in Yemen claimed responsibility in a statement
posted online for the Sanaa attack, latest in a string of recent
actions by the hardline Sunni Muslim group against Shi'ite Houthis
who run the capital.
One of the explosives-laden cars detonated near a hospital in
downtown Sanaa, which the news agency controlled by Yemen's dominant
Houthi group said killed and injured "numerous" people, while
another killed around 10 people in al-Bayda, capital of a province
in the country's battle-weary south.
Saudi-led coalition air strikes and clashes killed at least 176
fighters and civilians in Yemen on Monday, residents and media run
by the Houthi movement said, the highest daily toll since the Arab
air offensive began more than three months ago.
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intensified fighting that began on March 26. More than 3,000 people
have been killed since then as the Arab coalition tries stop the
Houthis spreading across the country from the north.
The Iran-allied Shi'ite Houthis say they are rebelling against a
corrupt government, while local fighters say they are defending
their homes from Houthi incursions. Sunni Saudi Arabia says it is
bombing the Houthis to protect the Yemeni state.
As fighting has raged across Yemen's south, the conflict has taken
on a sectarian tinge, pitting the Shi'ite Houthis against local
Sunni fighters who in many places fight alongside hardline al Qaeda
militants, who also revile the Houthis.
"COLLAPSING"
On Monday, about 63 people were killed in air strikes on Amran
province in the north, among them 30 people at a market, Houthi-controlled
state media agency Saba said.
In the same province, about 20 fighters and civilians were killed at
a Houthi checkpoint outside the main city, also named Amran, about
50 km (30 miles) northwest of the Yemeni capital of Sanaa, local
residents said.
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Arab alliance war planes also killed about 60 people at a livestock
market in the town of al-Foyoush in the south.
Also in the south, residents reported a further 30 killed in a raid
they said apparently targeted a Houthi checkpoint on the main road
between Aden and Lahj. They said 10 of the dead were Houthi
fighters.
Tribal sources in the central desert province of Marib said about 20
Houthi fighters and soldiers fighting alongside them were killed in
air raids and gun battles with tribal fighters, who support Yemen's
president in exile Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi.
On Tuesday, U.N. envoy to Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed continues
meetings with Houthi officials in Sanaa to try to broker a ceasefire
to allow aid deliveries. One Houthi official said Monday's attacks
had dealt a blow to peace efforts.
(Additional reporting by Mostafa Hashem in Cairo and Tom Miles in
Geneva; Writing by Noah Browning; Editing by Ralph Boulton)
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