The 75-year-old strong­man ruled Yemen for more than three decade­sSANAA: Yemen’s rebel-controlled interior ministry on Monday announced the “killing” of former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, as a video emerged showing what appeared to be Saleh’s corpse. Saleh on Saturday announced the end of his alliance with the Iran-backed Houthi rebels, with whom he has jointly ruled the capital for three years. The 75-year-old strongman ruled Yemen for more than three decades, until his ouster under popular and political pressure in 2012. The GPC officials said Saleh was killed south of the capital Sanaa along with the assistant secretary-general of the GPC, Yasser al-Awadi. Sources in the Houthi group said fighters stopped his armoured vehicle with an RPG rocket and then shot him dead.

Source: The Express Tribune December 04, 2017 13:12 UTC