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News ID: 69443
Publish Date : 18 August 2019 - 21:52

Clashes Between Rival Factions Kill 30 in Yemen's Taiz

ADEN (Dispatches) – as At least 30 people were killed during armed confrontations raging for the fourth consecutive day between rival pro-former regime military and security factions in Yemen's southwestern province of Taiz, a security official told Xinhua Sunday.
The security source based in Taiz said on condition of anonymity that "four days of intense clashes raging between security forces and army units linked to the Saudi-backed Yemeni government resulted in killing 30 people.
He said that the armed confrontations are still taking place between the rival forces in Albereen area to the southern side of Taiz.
A medical source confirmed the casualty figures saying that the dead people included "three displaced civilians, 13 soldiers from the 35th armored army brigade and about 14 security personnel."
According to the medical source, dozens of other were wounded during the ongoing clashes, including civilians.
An official of Taiz local authority clarified that "the clashes began on Thursday after sacking a security official from his post in the area and appointing a new one opposing the army forces."
The impoverished Arab country has been locked into a Saudi-led war since 2015.
The U.S.-based Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED), a nonprofit conflict-research organization, estimates that the Saudi-led war has claimed the lives of over 60,000 Yemenis since January 2016.
The war has also taken a heavy toll on the country’s infrastructure, destroying hospitals, schools, and factories. The UN says over 24 million Yemenis are in dire need of humanitarian aid, including 10 million suffering from extreme levels of hunger.
An international law group has submitted a new report to the British government providing evidence that the Saudi-led coalition has been covering up its unlawful airstrikes on civilian targets and its war crimes in the war on Yemen.