Yemen
truce stumbles, shelling reported in north and south
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[July 27, 2015]
SANAA/ADEN (Reuters) - Residents and
Saudi media said Yemen's Houthi militia had continued fighting across
Yemen on Monday despite a ceasefire announcement by Saudi-led forces
fighting to restore the elected Gulf-backed president.
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The Arab coalition fighting the Houthis, an Iranian-allied
movement that controls large parts of Yemen after seizing the
capital in September, had announced a five-day ceasefire from 11:59
p.m. (2059 GMT) on Sunday to allow emergency aid deliveries amid
severe shortages of fuel, food and medicine.
But the Saudi-owned Al Arabiya television reported that Houthi
forces had shelled the northerly al-Tawal region on the Saudi border
hours after the truce was meant to have started, and that Saudi
forces had retaliated.
In the second city, Aden, residents said Houthi forces had fired
missiles at the Mansoura and Sheikh Othman districts from shortly
after midnight until after dawn.
The Saba news service, which is loyal to the Saudi-backed Yemeni
president, Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, said Houthi militias had shelled
several residential communities in the southern town of Dalea, about
170 km (105 miles) north of Aden.
The Saudi state news broadcaster Ekhbariya reported that Houthi
forces had launched attacks in the central Marib province and the
central city of Taiz.
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A spokesman for the Houthi movement could not immediately be
contacted for comment.
(Reporting by Mohammed Mukhashef, Mohammed Ghobari, Omar Fahmy and
Hadeel al Sayegh, Writing by William Maclean; Editing by Kevin
Liffey)
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