Houthis kill Yemen’s former president Saleh

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A senior Houthi official confirmed on Monday that former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, his nephew, relatives and the general secretary of Saleh's party were killed, Xinhua News Agency reported.

"Saleh and his party's assistant general secretary Yasser al-Awadhi were killed on Monday morning while they were trying to escape through Khawlan district on the southeastern outskirts of Sanaa on their way to escape to Saudi-backed government-controlled Marib Province," the official confirmed to Xinhua.

"Saleh's nephew Tarek was killed also early Monday morning in his home in Haddah quarter in the capital Sanaa," the official said.

"The interior ministry announces the end of the crisis of militias and the killing of their leader and a number of his criminal supporters," announced the rebels' official Al-Masirah television channel.

Though there was no independent confirmation, pictures of Saleh's body, reportedly from the Houthi-run interior ministry, have been circulated on social media.

(With inputs from Xinhua)