YEMEN-SECURITY/TAIZ CLASHES Taiz residents inspect damage after air raid

Record ID: 145322

  • Title: YEMEN-SECURITY/TAIZ CLASHES Taiz residents inspect damage after air raid
  • Date: 2nd August 2015
  • Summary: TAIZ, YEMEN (AUGUST 1, 2015) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF SMOKE RISING OVER HIGH-RISE BUILDINGS HOLE IN APARTMENT CEILING APARTMENT BLOCKS MAN IN APARTMENT EXPLAINING WHAT HAPPENED PART OF SHELL IN MAN'S HAND VARIOUS OF SHELLED HOUSES DEBRIS IN STREET BURNT-OUT VEHICLE VARIOUS OF GIRL LOOKING ON VARIOUS OF MEN ON ROOF FIRING MACHINE GUNS
  • Embargoed: 17th August 2015 13:00
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  • Location: Yemen
  • Country: Yemen
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVADC7XSX2EKGOTGSCEA6J1PF4MH
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Clashes between Iran-backed Houthi fighters and troops loyal to exiled president Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi broke out in Yemen's central city of Taiz on Saturday (August 1), forcing residents to flee and causing damage to apartment buildings.
    Black plumes of smoke rose from an apartment complex and several residences were damaged in the violence.
    The clashes took place as Yemeni vice president Khaled Bahah arrived in the southern port city of Aden, the most senior official from Yemen's exiled government to visit since local fighters drove out the Iranian-backed Houthis.
    Airport officials said Bahah, who is also prime minister, was accompanied by six ministers when he flew in from the Saudi capital Riyadh, where the Yemeni government had been based since President Hadi fled a Houthi advance on Aden in March.
    Since then, hundreds have been killed in fierce clashes between pro-Hadi fighters, backed up by air strikes from a Saudi-led Arab alliance, and the Houthis, who have struck an alliance with supporters of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
    Yemen's warring parties in June failed to reach agreement at U.N.-sponsored peace talks in Geneva to end the fighting that has killed around 4,000 people since March.
    Fresh efforts by the U.N. special envoy to Yemen to broker further talks have so far been unsuccessful.
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