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Houthis' forces' representative Yahya al Mehdi has told Sputnik Arabic that former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh had allegedly been killed. According to Yahya al Mahdi, Saleh was allegedly killed several several hours ago on the Sinhan-Maareb highway amid his secret movements through the country.

A reporter from Tasnim News Agnecy says, Saleh has been killed while escaping from Sanaa to Maareb. The reporter cliams Saleh's forces have killed the ex-President.

Yemen's Ansarullah forces were besieging the palace of former president - and their former ally - Ali Abdullah Saleh on Monday, as well as residences in the capital belonging to his relatives and prominent supporters, residents told The National.

The Reuters earlier had reported that fighters from Yemen’s Ansarullah movement blew up the house of ex-President Ali Abdullah Saleh in the center of the capital Sanaa, as his whereabouts remained unknown. However, the just released images approved the words of the Houthis' forces' representative Yahya al Mehdi.

His loyalists have lost ground on the sixth day of heavy urban combat with the Ansarullah forces, his former allies in nearly three years of war with a Saudi-led military coalition.

The Ansarullah claimed on Monday to have made steady gains over Saleh’s forces after six days of heavy urban warfare in Sanaain.

But residents reported intense fighting overnight and into the morning, with families hunkered down their homes as explosions rocked the city. Coalition air strikes pounded Ansarullah positions in an apparent bid to shore up Saleh’s forces, witnesses said.

The country’s long-time ruler, Ali Abdullah Saleh, was forced to relinquish his power over to his colleague, Mansour Hadi, following a massive protest movement across Yemen. Saleh then joined the forces against Saudi aggression but recently turned back to his country and expressed his willingness to obey Saudi's orders.

Since the beginning of the Saudi assault on Yemen in 2015, more than 10 thousand civilians have been killed and around 40 thousand have been injured. Air strikes have on several occasions hit hospitals and other vital civilian infrastructure.