Shi'ite group hands back army camp to Yemeni government

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Shi'ite group hands back army camp to Yemeni government

SANAA (Reuters) - (This July 12, 2014 story was refiled to Fix typos in paragraphs 3 and 7) Shi'ite Muslim tribesmen handed back an army camp to the Yemeni government on Saturday, a spokesman for the group said, to try to defuse tensions caused by the capture of a provincial capital north of Sanaa this week. The fall of Omran, some 50 kms (31 miles) north of the Yemeni capital, has drawn condemnation from the U.N. Security Council and a threat of military action by President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, who had ordered the army to raise its preparedness level to "carry out any tasks that may be assigned to it". The spokesman, Mohammed Abdul-Salam, said in a statement on the Houthi website that an army force despatched from Sanaa "had arrived to take charge of the 310 division headquarters and oversee the security presence in Omran province".

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