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Tuesday, January 24, 2017
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Tuesday, January 24, 2017
At least 40 dead in battle for Yemen port
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleFighting for a key port city on Yemen’s Red Sea coast has left at least 40 rebel and pro-government fighters dead, military officials say.
Loyalist forces said yesterday they had captured the port of Mokha, almost three weeks into an offensive to oust Shiite Huthi insurgents and their allies from Yemen’s southwestern coast.
But they exchanged fire overnight with rebels still holed up in the port on Mokha’s southwestern edge.
Clashes continued today on the southern and eastern outskirts of the city.
“Despite the significant human toll, the Huthis are still in the center of Mokha,” a military official tells AFP.
— AFP
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