At least 44 people were killed Thursday in fighting between rebels and supporters of Yemeni President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi in the southern city of Aden, medics and a military official said.
Eighteen civilians and six members of a local militia resisting the rebels' advance were killed in the fighting, a medic said.
A military official said 20 Huthi Shiite rebels also died in the clashes.