More than 20 people have been killed in intense fighting between rebels and loyalists on the outskirts of Yemen’s third city Taez, military and medical sources said on Friday. Two civilians were also killed and 16 wounded when rebels fired Katyusha rockets into a residential area of Taez, they said. The medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said emergency rooms it supports or manages in Taez province had received a total of 21 dead and 76 wounded. He was killed while “off duty when a blast hit a local market in the neighbourhood”, said Djoen Besselink, who heads the MSF mission in Yemen. The United Nations says more than 7,000 people have been killed and nearly 37,000 wounded in Yemen since the Arab coalition began a military campaign in March 2015.

Source: Hindustan Times November 18, 2016 16:53 UTC