Twelve people were killed in renewed clashes between Shiite Zaidi rebels and Salafists in northern Yemen today, the second straight day of bloodshed, tribal sources said.
They died in fierce fighting in the streets of Reda in Amran province, some 80 kilometres north of the capital Sanaa, witnesses said, adding that few residents ventured out because of the clashes.
"Eight men from Sunni tribes were killed and 11 wounded in the fighting," a tribal source told AFP, while a Shiite rebel source spoke of "four dead and nine wounded among the Zaidi ranks."
Today's death toll was earlier put at eight, a day after another Salafist was reported killed.
(Published 22 September 2012, 17:38 IST)
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