yemeni sectarian clashes kill at least 16
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At least 16 gunmen have been killed in three days of fighting between Shiite Houthi rebels in north Yemen and Sunni Salafist extremists, according to claims by both sides on Tuesday. “Four of our men were killed and six others wounded in confrontations on Saturday with Salafist gunmen in Al-Qobaaf,” east of the Huthi stronghold of Saada, said Houthi spokesman Mohammed Abdulsalam. Sorur al-Wadii, a spokesman for the Salafists said 12 Sunni militants were killed in three days of fighting, but claimed that his comrades killed 18 Houthi fighters. He blamed the Houthis for the clashes, saying the killings on “both sides were result of attacks by the Houthis who are trying to expand (their control) in the province of Hajja, Marib and Jawf.” Abdulsalam accused the Sunni gunmen of receiving support from a neighbouring Gulf country. “We are in total control of the situation,” he said, insisting that hostilities were started by a Salafist group paid by a Gulf country. Dozens of people have been killed in sectarian clashes since last year between the rebels and Salafists trying to tighten their grip on the north, where government control has slackened since a political crisis in Sanaa. Yemen’s mountainous north is a stronghold of the Houthis, who from 2004 fought six wars with central government forces before signing a truce in February 2010. The rebellion claimed thousands of lives.

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