Sanaa: Tribesmen loyal to a powerful opposition chief have seized public buildings including state news agency Saba, amid raging gunbattles with Yemen’s security forces that have killed 44 people.
The tribesmen have also occupied the national airline Yemenia building and have tried to storm the interior ministry headquarters.
Clashes between security forces and followers of Sheikh Sadiq al-Ahmar, who heads the powerful Hashid tribal federation, broke out in Sanaa on Monday after President Ali Abdullah Saleh refused to sign a deal with the opposition that would see him leave office within 30 days.
The tribesmen occupied public buildings, including the trade and industry ministry the day after the president explicitly warned of civil war in the Arabian Peninsula’s poorest country.
Fighting raged through much of Monday and Tuesday and resumed on Wednesday morning after a brief lull.
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