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Yemeni Houthi representative in national dialogue killed - source

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22-11-2013 | 13:25

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A member of Yemen's parliament and representative of the country's Shi'ite Muslim Houthis in a dialogue for national reconciliation was killed on Friday, a security source said.

Abdul Karim Jedban was shot by armed assailants on a motorbike as he left a mosque in the capital Sanaa, the source said.

Fighting broke out last month in the north Yemen town of Damaj when Shi'ite Houthis accused Salafist Sunni Muslims of recruiting thousands of foreign fighters and preparing to attack them.

Houthi fighters control much of the northern Saada province, on the border with Saudi Arabia, which has been their base for a long-running rebellion against the government. Sectarian rivalry in Damaj is hampering reconciliation efforts.

Meanwhile, gunmen fired shots at a convoy carrying the United Nations' envoy to Yemen, Jamal Benomar but no one was hurt in the attack, a security source said.

The source, who had been traveling in the convoy in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, said guards escorting the convoy had opened fire on the attackers who then fled the scene.

Benomar is trying to push forward a dialogue on national reconciliation, part of a power transfer deal prompted by mass protests in 2011 that forced veteran president Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down after 33 years in office.

REUTERS

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