A man was killed and tens injured when the army shelled villages in Arhab district outside Sana'a, it quoted a local official as saying.
Artilleries at the military camp on Al-Somoud Mountain targeted several villages in Arhab and then gunfights erupted between forces and armed people, the official said, as eyewitnesses added that the armed people burned tanks and bombed an ammunition storage.
The tribes in Arhab have been besieging military camps in the area for almost a month.