Aden--Rebel forces shelled a town in southern Yemen on Monday killing eight civilians, a local government official said, in a sign of growing unrest in the chaos-hit country.
Two children were among the dead and dozens were wounded after troops loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh and allied with Shiite Huthi rebels shelled neighbourhoods in Daleh using tanks and artillery, the official told AFP.
He accused the rebels of retaliating "after they failed to reach the centre of Daleh", a town north of the main southern city of Aden, following resistance by residents.
The Huthis are backed by army units loyal to Saleh, who stepped down in 2012 after a year of bloody protests in the deeply tribal country.
Rebel fighters, the target of a Saudi-led Arab air war, have overrun much of Yemen and prompted President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi to flee what had been his last remaining refuge in Aden.
Dozens of people have been killed in several days of clashes in Aden, and Hadi's aides have said he has no immediate plan to return from Riyadh.
AFP
