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Clashes between Yemeni presidential guards and Shiite Houthi militants near the presidential palace in Sanaa stopped, the state-run TV reported Monday.
Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi would hold a meeting with his advisers, including those affiliated with the Shiite group, later in the day, the broadcaster said, quoting an unnamed source at the presidency as saying.
However, an Anadolu Agency correspondent said that Houthi militants are shelling a house near the site of clashes with heavy weapons.
Clashes erupted earlier on Monday between Houthi vigilantes and presidential guards near the presidential palace in Sanaa.
The Houthis say the clashes had left two Houthi militants wounded, accusing the presidential guards of indiscriminately shelling houses near the site.
A Yemeni Health Ministry source said later that a number of civilians were killed, while others wounded in the clashes.
Yemen has been suffering lawlessness since a popular uprising that erupted in 2011 ended the autocracy of President Ali Abdullah Saleh a year later.
The Houthis have controlled capital Sanaa in September of 2014 and have since then moved to extend their control to other Yemeni provinces.
