GROUND fighting and Saudi-led airstrikes targeting Yemen's Shi'ite rebels have killed nearly 100 people as negotiators in neighbouring Oman tried to reach a truce, Yemeni security officials say.

THEY said on Wednesday representatives of the southern separatist movement were meeting with the rebels, known as Huthis, in the Omani capital, Muscat.

Originally published asAirstrikes kill 100 in Yemen