A citizen was killed while two others were injured when Houthis and pro-former president Ali Abdullah Saleh militants shelled on Thursday Saladin district of Aden city, Aden Al Ghad news website reported.

Dozens of families moved out of the city to escape the shelling.

Taiz city is witnessing one of the fiercest waves of shelling since the start of the Yemeni crisis.

Dozens of people were killed an injured in the shelling, Yemen Voice website quoted medical sources as saying.