Pro-UAE forces tighten their grip on Aden and storm the city of Shabwa

One person was killed and another injured in Aden, south of Yemen, by UAE-backed security belt forces who carried out more arrests of loyalists of the legitimate government during a crackdown to tighten their grip on the interim capital, continued military operations and took control of a town in Shabwa oil province.

In Aden, local sources said that the security belt forces opened fire on the two men after clashes with some residents while arresting the director of public relations in the Brega Directorate Mohammed Ali al-Maisari.

Other local sources told Al Jazeera Net that the security belt forces of the United Arab Emirates in the city of Aden continue their raids on dozens of houses amid fierce clashes next to the house of the commander of the military area Fadl Hassan.

The UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (SNTC) forces had recaptured the city of Aden from government forces after battles in several southern provinces in which control shifted rapidly from one end to the other.

During its control of Aden and cities in the neighboring province of Abyan, UAE-backed forces faced accusations from the Yemeni government of serious abuses, including the liquidation of wounded people.

Also in the field developments, a military source told Al Jazeera Net that the Shabwani elite forces backed by the United Arab Emirates took control of the Azzan district in the province of Shabwa, and established military points in the city days after the restoration of the legitimate government of the entire province.

In Abyan province, security sources said that gunmen attacked the security directorate of Mudiya Directorate using light and medium weapons in an attempt to storm it, but the security forces located in the vicinity of the security management building responded to the attack and clashes erupted for hours, forcing the attackers to flee.

Transitional accuses
Politically, a spokesman for the so-called Southern Transitional Council, Nizar Haitham, said that the government side is intransigent about the dialogue.

He pointed out in an earlier bulletin with the island that government forces continue to fight and breach the ceasefire agreement in the southern provinces, and support armed terrorist militias, he said.

The Yemeni government refused to participate in a dialogue called by Saudi Arabia to solve the current crisis in Aden, and required the withdrawal of forces supported by Abu Dhabi from state institutions and camps.

Earlier, Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi accused the UAE of supporting what he described as transitional council militias in a bid to divide Yemen, referring to the council's quest to restore the state of southern Yemen, while members of the Yemeni government have been calling for the expulsion of the UAE from the coalition and from Yemeni territory.

As for the crisis in southern Yemen, the former governor of Al-Mahra province, Ali Al-Huraizi, revealed the establishment of what he called a national rescue council representing all factions and components in the southern governorates. Al-Huraizi said that the launch of this council would be skilled soon.