Two freelance cameramen were killed in rebel shelling of the outskirts of Yemen’s third city Taiz on Friday as they filmed fighting with government troops, security officials said.
The clashes came after UN envoy Ismail Ould Sheikh Ahmed flew out of the rebel-held capital of Sanaa on Thursday without securing agreement on a cease-fire for Ramadan which begins Saturday.
The government garrison in Taiz is almost completely surrounded by Shiite Houthi rebels and their allies, and the city has come under repeated bombardment.
Security officials named the dead men as Takieddin Hutheifi and Wael Al-Abassi. Two other cameramen were wounded.
Another 16 civilians, including children, have been killed in rebel shelling since Monday, the city’s health services chief Abdel Rahim Samai told AFP.
The rebels overran Sanaa in September 2014 and then seized much of the rest of Yemen.
The support of a Saudi-led coalition has enabled Hadi loyalists to retake the south of the country, but most of the north and the Red Sea coast remain in rebel hands.
Source: Arab News
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