Southern separatists clashed on Wednesday with the presidential guard in the Yemeni city of Aden, killing three people and seriously wounding nine
The violence on Wednesday highlighted the split in the Saudi-backed coalition.
According to reports, the infighting broke out Wednesday after the southern separatists attended a funeral for dozens of fellows, including a senior militant commander, who was killed in last week’s retaliatory missile attack by Yemen’s Ansarullah movement on a military parade.
During the funeral, the mourners chanted slogans against the self-proclaimed Hadi administration and exchanged gunfire with the guards at the presidential palace in Aden — where Hadi was supposed to be based but which remains largely empty as the ex-president lives in Riyadh.
It is not the first time such clashes break out between rival militants in Aden. In January, the UAE-backed southern Yemeni separatists took control of the two city after days of frighting and confined the Hadi administration to the presidential palace.
