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| 'Many killed' in Yemen air raid | |
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| More than 80 people have been killed in an air raid on a camp for displaced people in northern Yemen, reports say. | More than 80 people have been killed in an air raid on a camp for displaced people in northern Yemen, reports say. |
| According to witnesses, many of those killed in the raid - which took place near the border with Saudi Arabia - were women, children and old people. | According to witnesses, many of those killed in the raid - which took place near the border with Saudi Arabia - were women, children and old people. |
| Government forces have been trying to contain a growing insurgency in the area by Shia rebels known as Houthis. | |
| Fighting has intensified since the Yemeni army launched an operation targeting the rebels in mid-August. | Fighting has intensified since the Yemeni army launched an operation targeting the rebels in mid-August. |
| One witness told AFP news agency that the attack happened as displaced families gathered beneath trees in the Adi area, in Amran province. | |
| Fleeing fighting | |
| An official said that the rebels had been shooting from the area ahead of the attack, which reports say happened on Wednesday. | |
| "The jet fighter targeted rebels who were firing while hiding among the displaced people," said the official, who spoke to AFP on condition of anonymity. | "The jet fighter targeted rebels who were firing while hiding among the displaced people," said the official, who spoke to AFP on condition of anonymity. |
| Houthi rebels say they want greater autonomy and a greater role for their version of Shia Islam, complain that their community is discriminated against and accuse the government of being corrupt and too aligned with the US and Saudi Arabia. | |
| The government accuses them of seeking to overthrow it and impose Shia religious law. | |
| The rebel fighters - drawn from the country's Zaidi Shia minority - are followers of Shia cleric, Hussein al-Houthi, who was killed in 2004. | |
| Tens of thousands of Yemenis have fled the fighting in the north, cramming into makeshift camps, schools and barns, as aid groups struggle to get supplies to them. | |
| The government is also battling secessionists in the south and has been criticised by the US for its failure to tackle al-Qaeda militants in the east and pirates off the coast. |