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Sunday 4 March 2018 - 12:20
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Scores killed as Houthis fight Saudi mercenaries outside Sana'a

Press TV - A confrontation between Saudi-backed militants and Yemens popular Houthi Ansarullah movement across the war-battered country has left around 80 people dead on both sides.

More than 55 died and dozens more were wounded in Sanaa Provinces Nihm District, northwest of the countrys capital, on Saturday,Yemen'smedical officials said.

The sources also said fighting killed at least 25 people on both sides along Yemen's west coast.

Houthi officials, meanwhile,rejected militantclaims of advancing in Sanaas Arhab District.

The fighters and their allied army forces also thwarted a push by Saudi-backed militants to advance in the southwestern al-Bayda Province. Yemens al-Masirah television network said dozens of the militants were killed in the provinces Nati District.

The militants fight on the side of Yemens former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi who resigned amid internal conflictin March 2015 and thenfledto Saudi Arabia.

Soon afterwards, Saudi Arabia launched a military campaign to restore the former president and crush Ansarullah, which had begun running the countrys affairs after Hadis flight.

More than 13,600 people have died and millions of people have been displaced since the onset of the Saudi-led invasion which has plunged the impoverished country into one of the worst humanitarian crises.


[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="555"] Fighters look at the damage in the aftermath of an airstrike on state TV station in the capital Sanaa, on December 9, 2017. (Photo by AFP)[/caption]
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