Ten Yemeni soldiers were killed on Sunday when their military helicopter crashed in a mountainous area in the region of Saada, a Shiite rebel stronghold, witnesses said. The witnesses said the helicopter went down at Kahlan mountain, east of the provincial capital Saada, scene of heavy fighting over the past six months between the rebels and the government forces before they reached a shaky truce on Thursday.
Sources told AFP that the captain of the helicopter, lieutenant colonel Sadek al-Junaid, was among the dead, adding the cause of the crash was not immediately clear.
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