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Yemen clashes claim one soldier
Clashes occured after Friday prayers and left a second soldier wounded.
Last Modified: 26 Apr 2008 06:29 GMT

Clashes have broken out in the northern Saada province of Yemen between government forces and al-Huthi supporters, leaving at least two people, including a soldier, dead.
 
The soldier was reportedly killed and a second wounded in an ambush after Friday prayers at a mosque in the Safiya district of Hidan Directorate, western Saada province.
The conflicted Saada region has seen relative calm since the signing of a second agreement for reconciliation in Qatar's capital Doha last February.
 
However, a member of Yemen's parliament was killed in the area last week by armed men alongside his son and two bodyguards.
The mountainous province close to Yemen's border with Saudi Arabia has been at the heart of a conflict with the government by members of the Zaidi community, a branch of Shia Islam.
 
The rebel group - called "Huthis" after their late leader Hussein Badr Eddin al-Huthi - is fighting to restore Yemen's Zaidi imamate, which ruled for hundreds of years before being overthrown in 1962.
 
Thousands of people have been killed in clashes since fighting began in 2004.
 
Friday's clashes came a day after a team of Qatari mediators returned to Sanaa in a fresh bid to help the two sides reach a deal over implementing the peace accords.
 
Yemeni authorities and Huthi negotiators have had repeated disagreements over the interpretation of some of the peace deals' clauses.
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