He also stabbed three other workers, leaving them with serious injuries
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Aden — Saudi-led warplanes launched dawn raids on Saturday against rebels in Yemen’s southern port city of Aden, the military said, hours after peace talks in Geneva ended without agreement.
At least 15 air strikes rocked the northern, eastern and western approaches to Aden, said a pro-government military source.
“The objective is to close the noose around the Houthi rebels in Aden and assist the popular resistance committees” loyal to exiled President Abderabbo Mansour Hadi, the source said.
He said the rebels shelled several Aden neighbourhoods, killing four people and wounding several others, a toll confirmed by hospital officials.
The violence came hours after the UN’s special envoy for Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, announced on Friday in Geneva that talks between the warring sides ended without agreement.
“I won’t beat around the bush. There was no kind of agreement reached,” the Mauritanian diplomat told reporters in the Swiss city.
More than 2,600 have been killed in the fighting which has also left 80 per cent of the population — 20 million people — in need of urgent humanitarian aid, according to UN estimates.
Aid groups and the UN say a dire humanitarian crisis is unfolding, and have appealed on all sides to stop fighting to allow them to move supplies to Yemen and distribute them to the needy.
The situation is particularly tragic in Aden, where residents have complained of food and water shortages, while medics speak of a rapidly deteriorating health situation and the spread of disease.
A boat laden with supplies, including flour, that was due to dock in Aden this week had to divert course to Hodeida in western Yemen due to the fighting, Aden’s deputy governor Nayef Al Bakri said.
Bakri accused the Houthis of deliberately forcing the vessel, chartered by the UN’s World Food Programme, to change course to Hodeida where they control the port to punish the people of Aden.
“They want to deprive Aden’s residents, who have been resisting their presence, from this aid,” he said.
He also stabbed three other workers, leaving them with serious injuries
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