More than 7,700 people have been killed in Yemen during the last year due to armed clashes in the country, a study conducted by a Yemeni NGO shows.
The figure indicates a threefold rise from the death toll in 2011, when a popular uprising happened against the country's longtime dictator, Ali Abdullah Saleh, said the study carried out by Abaad Studies and Research Center, published late on Saturday.

The research noted that about 5,000 Ansarullah revolutionaries (Houthis) were killed in 2014 while

more than 1,200 Yemeni civilians and 1,000 military forces died.

It also put the number of al-Qaeda-affiliated militants at about 500.

In recent months, Yemen has been grappling with a tough political conflict between the central government and Ansarullah revolutionaries, who played a major role in the ouster of Saleh.

In September 2014, the fighters gained control of the capital, Sana’a, following a four-day battle with army forces loyal to General Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar, the half-brother of the former dictator.

In the same month, Ansarullah fighters and President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi’s government, which replaced the Saleh administration, inked a UN-backed ceasefire deal that called for the withdrawal of the revolutionaries from the capital once a neutral prime minister was picked.

By Press TV

 

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