Houthis put Yemen president and PM under house arrest: Government

‘The Yemeni government claims Shia Ansarullah revolutionaries of the Houthi Ansarullah movement have put a number of senior government officials under house arrest.

“The Houthis put the president, prime minister and several ministers under house arrest in an incident unprecedented in Yemen’s political history,” read the statement issued by the Yemeni government on Thursday.

The statement added that the administration of Prime Minister Khaled Bahah is no longer responsible for what is going on in the Arab country, blaming the Shia revolutionaries for “paralyzing the state and the country’s political transition.”‘

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