Almotamar.net - Local sources in the governorate of Saada said Thursday that terrorist elements, followers of Abdulmalik al-Houthi, took advantage of the halt in military operations to continue their attacks on citizens who refuse to cooperate with them. They have assassinated Sheikh Abdullah Ahmed Muawadh and wounded other citizens in the district of Safraaa after they sneaked to their houses at night.

The sources told almotamar.net that five terrorist elements last night killed sheikh Muawadh in his house in Damaj area, Safraa district and a number of citizens were injured in clashes with those elements while trying to enter houses in the village. The sources did not mention about the fate of those elements because stark darkness but said they were strongly confronted by inhabitants of the village.

On the other hand other local sources told almotamar.net that security men captured a person in the district of Manbah carrying 5kg of drugs and who it was later revealed he is one of terrorist elements. The sources added that the person Al-Aksar was arrested in the wake of suspicions by security men who were in a patrol nearby the district centre that he is one of the terrorists. The moment he was caught they found out he was carrying a quantity of drugs he was intending to take them to terrorists he has been retained and drugs confiscated.

An official source at a forward operation room in the north-western military area in Saada earlier announced implementation of president Ali Abdullah Saleh's directives on suspending military operations in Saada beginning from last Monday to give the terrorist elements an opportunity to surrender themselves and their medium and heavy weapons to the state in implementation of decision taken by the National Defence Council and statement of Yemen scholars.