58 killed in large-scale Houthi attacks

Sanaa : The Houthi militia have launched large-scale attacks against Yemen’s government forces stationed in the country’s oil-rich province of Marib, which killed 58 people from both sides, a military official said.
“Several areas and positions controlled by the government forces were heavily attacked by the Houthis who are expanding their military operations aimed at capturing Marib,” the official told Xinhua news agency on Thursday.
Ferocious battles are still taking place between the two warring sides in various areas of Marib amid intensified airstrikes, the source said.
During the past 48 hours, 40 Houthis and 18 soldiers of the Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces were killed, he confirmed.
He clarified that scores of the Houthi fighters were left injured as warplanes of the Saudi Arabia-led coalition continued striking their positions in Marib.
Another official of the government forces told Xinhua that “a series of Saudi-led airstrikes largely participated in aborting the Houthi offensive against Marib”.