ADEN, March 22 (Reuters) - Yemeni anti-aircraft guns opened
fire at an unidentified plane flying over President Abd-Rabbu
Mansour Hadi's compound in the southern city of Aden on Sunday
and appeared to force it away, witnesses said.
It was the third incident of its kind in the past four days,
in which unidentified aircraft have flown over the compound,
where Hadi is based, on one occasion dropping bombs without
causing any casualties.
Aden's governor Abdulaziz bin Habtoor has accused the
Shi'ite Muslim Houthi movement of ordering the flights, an
allegation the Iran-allied group, which controls much of the
north of the country, has yet to address.
Yemen has descended into civil war since last year when the
Houthis seized Sanaa and removed Hadi from effective control of
the state. The Houthis then advanced into Sunni Muslim areas,
leading to clashes with local tribes and al Qaeda.
On Saturday Hadi, who fled to Aden from Sanaa last month,
accused the Houthis of staging a coup against him and appealed
to the United Nations for "urgent intervention".
Eyewitnesses in the central province of Ibb described to
Reuters seeing a column of dozens of tanks and military vehicles
travelling from the Houthi-loyalist north on their way southward
toward Taiz, 150 km (200 miles) northwest of Aden.
The Houthis are allied with former Yemeni president Ali
Abdullah Saleh, who still wields influence in the armed forces
despite having given up power in 2011 after mass protests
against his rule.
(Reporting by Mohammed Mukhashaf, writing by Sami Aboudi,
Editing by William Maclean and Louise Heavens)
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