Aden - Abdel Ghani Yahya
Security authorities in Yemen’s southeastern province of Hadramout have deployed dozens of police forces at military checkpoints outside Al Mukalla and neighbouring regions to face potential terrorist attacks.
A Yemeni military source in the command of the second military in Mukalla, east Yemen, reported that the Yemeni army and security forces intensified their presence on Friday afternoon after receiving a report on potential terrorist attacks. The security forces and the army in the city strengthened security measures at a number of security points and centers. Witnesses said that Apache planes flew at low level in the city of Mukalla.
On Friday, al-Houthi militias shelled residential areas in the countryside of Taiz, south of the country, leaving civilian casualties at a time of intense fighting in many areas. Medical sources said that dead and wounded civilians were killed by militia shelling residential neighborhoods north and east of the city and its center.
Medical sources confirmed that a Palestinian was killed and five other members of his family, including two children, were injured when a shell fell on a house near the mosque of Said in the area of Asifra, north of the city. Militants based in the 50th Street, north of the city, launched a similar bombardment of the residential neighborhoods of Sinan, killing a civilian and wounding his wife and two children.
In the western side of the city, a Katyusha rocket was shelled in al-Ghafira district, by militias in Wazzan, but caused no damage or casualties. Militias bombed the villages of Hamdeh, Al-Mustaqah, Al-Mubtah and Al-Sa'id in the town of Al-Salu, south of the city, causing severe damage to the houses. A civilian in the village of Al-Houd, in the same district, was also injured by a landmine explosion in the black Alija district, which was later taken to hospital.
On the other hand, the artillery of the government forces destroyed a military camp for the militias in al-Rubaie area, in the fog front, west of the city. The shelling of government artillery by the government forces destroyed the crew and killed all those on board.
There were fierce battles between the two sides on the eastern front, while government forces repulsed a militia attack on the area of Camp Russians, in Kalaba, forced them to retreat and flee.
The fighting in the eastern front left dozens dead and wounded in the ranks of the militias, while one member of the government forces was killed and three wounded.
A number of field fronts are also taking place on the western coast of the country and west of the city of Taiz, south of the country, fierce battles between the government forces supported by the Arab coalition fighters on the one hand and between Saleh and Houthi militias on the other.
The Arab coalition fighters launched a series of raids on the positions of militias in the area of Al-Barh, the Directorate accepted, in the western axis of the city, coinciding with the intensification of the fighting on the fronts of the Directorate. According to a security source, fierce fighting between the two sides broke out after fierce attacks on the militias on the market Kdha, but government forces forced them to retreat.
The sources said that government forces and air cover of coalition fighters and Apache helicopters launched a fierce attack on the positions of the militia stationed in the vicinity of the camp Khalid bin Walid. These battles coincided with the other is increasingly harmful between the two sides in the vicinity of Mount Fire, east of the coastal directorate.