Yemeni troops close in on rebel leader after 72 killed in fresh offensive
AFP, August, 2004
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SANAA (AFP) — Yemeni troops were closing in on a rebel Muslim preacher in northwest Yemen after fierce clashes with his followers which left 72 people dead in 48 hours, a security official said.
Army units overran the mountainous Khamis Maran region in Saada province and were combing the area in search of Hussein Badr Eddin al-Huthi and his supporters holed up there, the official told AFP from Saada, requesting anonymity.
The bodies of around 20 rebels killed in the clashes were found in Khamis Maran, raising to at least 72 the number of fatalities on both sides, he said.
The army is about to end the seven-week-old rebellion, the official added.
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Military and medical sources said earlier Thursday that 34 soldiers and 18 militants had been killed in 24 hours as the military battled its way through Huthi's stronghold.
They said army forces launched ...
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