Armed confrontations burst in Lahj

LAHJ, Jan. 16 (YPA) – A number of militants were killed and wounded in violent clashes erupted on Sunday in Lahj province, south of Yemen, according to local sources.

The sources said that clashes between Al-Sabiha tribes and the UAE-funded Southern Transitional Council (STC)’s militia came due to cutting off the main road in Sabr area linking Taiz and Aden, in protest of the killing of one of the tribes’ sons.

The sources stated that the “STC” elements waged the arrests’ campaign that gunmen of Al-Sabiha tribes rejected and called for escalating the confrontations and handing over the killers.

The sources indicated that the STC’s militia leader in Lahj, Saleh Al-Sayed, directed the reinforcement of his elements to arrest Al-Sabiha’s sons, refusing to deliver the killers to the judicial authorities.

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