Houthi rebels in Yemen announced on Monday that they had killed former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh.

In messages posted online, Yemen's Houthi-run Interior Ministry said Saleh had been killed in fighting in Sanaa, and posted video purportedly showing his dead body in the back of a truck, with a gunshot wound to the head. The report is yet to be verified by Saleh's backers or the international coalition fighting the Houthis.