At least 66 people have been killed in the last 24 hours in attacks between rebels and government soldiers in Yemen, medics and security sources have said, as pro-government forces are pushing to expel rebels from a key stretch of the coastline.
In air strikes launched by a Saudi-led coalition and fighting near the strategic Bab al-Mandab strait, at least 52 fighters among Shiite Huthi rebels and troops loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh Ali Abdullah Saleh were killed, according to sources.
"The rebels took those dead among them to a military hospital in Hodeida, a major western port city they control," a medical source said. The hospital received 14 dead on Saturday and 38 on Sunday, as well as 55 wounded rebels, the source added.
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