Gunmen opened fired at al-Ahdal after he stepped outside of his home

Al Mayadeen's correspondent reported that a leader in Yemen's Reform Party, Diaa al-Haq al-Ahdal, was assassinated by gunmen in Taiz, southwest of Yemen.

According to security sources, gunmen assassinated al-Ahdal right after he left his home in the city of Taiz, which is under the control of the Reform Party and the Hadi government.

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اغتيال القيادي بحزب الإصلاح والمقاومة الشعبية ضياء الحق الأهدل برصاص مسلحين في شارع جمال وسط مدينة تعز.
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Our correspondent noted that al-Ahdal had played a role recently in the rapprochement between the Reform Party and Tareq Saleh, the leader of the UAE-backed forced in the city of al-Mokha and the western coast.

No group has so far claimed responsibility for the incident. The Reform party and Taiz authorities have also not released a statement as of yet.

The Yemeni Army and popular committees had earlier managed to gain control over large swathes of land in the al-Abdiyyah governorate, south of Marib, after violent clashes with the Hadi government and Reform Party forces, who were backed by hundreds of Saudi coalition air raids.