20 dead as rebels advance in heart of Yemen’s Aden

Huthi rebels and their allies advanced in the heart of Yemen’s second city Aden in heavy fighting that killed at least 20 people, medical and security sources said on Tuesday.

A Saudi-led coalition meanwhile pressed air strikes for a seventh straight day since announcing a halt to its bombing campaign last Tuesday, an AFP correspondent and witnesses reported.

The rebels and their allies have lost 200 dead to the strikes since they began on March 26, a spokesman said, accusing the coalition of escalating not ending its air war.

In Aden, forces loyal to exiled President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi were pushed back in the city’s central Khor Maksar district as the rebels overran Hadi’s family home and the German and Russian consulates, a local official said.