Cosity killed the Yemeni chief of staff

In Yemen in an attack by Shiite rebels housetop killed the Deputy chief of the General staff of the country. About it reports Reuters.

“Major-General Ahmed Saif al-Yafei was killed along with several soldiers, when a rocket hit a military camp near the town of Moss in the predawn hour,” said one of the relatives of the deceased soldier.

This information was confirmed in Saudi Arabia, adding that the Houthis struck a ballistic missile. The city of Moss, located on the coast of the red sea, were repulsed loyal to the exiled President Hadi’s forces and their Saudi allies less than a month ago.

In a civil war in Yemen on the same side fighting the military wing of the Houthis, the Shiite movement “Ansar Allah”, and those loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh of the army. On the other troops of ousted Sunni President Abd-rabbu Mansour Hadi and the Saudi-led coalition. At the end of March 2015 Riyadh and its allies began a campaign against the rebels with the aim of returning to power Hadi.

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