Southern separatists clashed with the presidential guard in the city of Aden, the seat of the Yemeni government, killing three and seriously injuring nine, local officials and residents said.
Sources of the island, a heavy exchange of fire in Aden between the forces of the UAE-backed security belt and the forces of the Yemeni Presidential Guard.
Ahead of the clashes, the southern city of Aden was witnessing a cautious calm after a day of events, which resulted in deaths and injuries in clashes between the forces of the Presidential Protection Brigades on the one hand, and between the UAE-backed security belt militants and tribal militants on the other hand, near the presidential palace in the city. .
While the city is in a state of near paralysis, witnesses said military vehicles, a number of security belt soldiers and gunmen from the UAE-backed Transitional Council are gathering at a number of points in the city center.
The clashes began after the Southern Transitional Council Vice-President Hani Ben Brik called on his forces to storm the Maasheq Palace, accusing President Hadi and his cabinet members of supporting Islah.
His call to storm the presidential palace came in the wake of the Houthi shelling that targeted days before the evacuation camp in Aden - in which about 40 security belt troops, including military commander Munir al-Yafi, were killed - and the Islamic State attack on Sheikh Othman police station that killed 13. A security component.
The clashes began in the Crater area in conjunction with the funeral of al-Yafi, and the presidential protection forces responded to the mobilization of the Southern Council forces by deploying tanks in the vicinity of the palace.
Al Jazeera sources said that the dead and wounded were killed in the clashes, while witnesses reported that the security belt gunmen and tribesmen tried to storm the palace, but the Presidential Protection Forces confronted them, including the overflights of the aircraft of the Saudi-Emirati coalition.
Try a coup
While the UAE has called on the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash to calm in Aden, the Associated Press quoted a Yemeni government official as saying that the call to storm the presidential palace and expel the government from a coup attempt backed by the UAE.
The source added that what happened was a coup of armed militias clearly supported by the UAE and not unlike the coup of the Houthis in Sanaa.
For his part, Yemeni Interior Minister Ahmed al-Maissari said that the statement made by the Vice President of the Southern Transitional Council Hani Ben Brik, on the storming of the presidential palace is a declaration of war on legitimacy and aims to provoke strife and serve the Houthis.
He said the government had exercised patience and wisdom to maintain stability in the city of Aden.
The leadership of the Saudi-UAE alliance described in a statement the developments in Aden as dangerous and said that it rejects any measures that harm the security and stability of the city.
Saudi-Emirati coalition spokesman Colonel Turki al-Maliki said the coalition leadership would not accept tampering with the interests of the Yemeni people.
He called on all parties and components of Yemen to arbitrate reason and the primacy of national interest, and work with the legitimate government of Yemen to overcome these exceptional circumstances and the critical phase and its implications, he said.
The Maasheq Palace is the official seat of the legitimate Yemeni government in Aden, and has been targeted by forces loyal to the Southern Transitional Council last year.