AFP: Yemen Republican Guards killed in clashes
Four Yemeni Republican Guards were killed in clashes with anti-regime gunmen in Taez Saturday, witnesses and tribal sources said, as 79 people were referred to court over a March massacre in the capital.
Fifty Yemeni soldiers were also reported missing around the southern city of Zinjibar, a commander said, accusing top brass of abandoning them to Al-Qaeda.
The fighting in Taez between the Republican Guards and “defenders of the revolution” against President Ali Abdullah Saleh began on Saturday morning and was still continuing in the evening, witnesses said.
The clashes erupted when the Guards tried to enter a new area in the north of Taez, they said. Six houses were also destroyed in the fighting.