Heavy fighting intensified at night after the two sides used tank and artillery on the second day of an attempted “coup” in the southern port city, military sources said. At night, pro-separatist security forces advanced in some areas and were just one kilometre (mile) away from the presidential palace in Aden, security and military sources told AFP. Separatists have dispatched additional forces from the central province of Marib and the southern province of Abyan, security sources said. On Sunday, security sources said pro-separatist units trained and supported by the UAE had taken over the government headquarters after clashes. “All night shooting in Aden #Yemen, including heavy weapons,” Alexandre Faite, the head of the ICRC delegation in the country based in Sanaa, said on Twitter.

Source: Egypt Independent January 30, 2018 06:45 UTC