SANA, Yemen — Northern forces continued to rain artillery shells and rockets Friday on Aden, capital of Yemen's breakaway south, and the United States called on the north to cease the deadly bombardment.
In Washington, the State Department voiced alarm over the shelling of Aden and said there were heavy casualties. It said the attacks violate a U.N. Security Council resolution for a cease-fire.
The south said Thursday that more than 800 civilians had been killed or wounded since Sunday in Aden. Aden radio quoted unidentified southern Defense Ministry sources as saying battles continued Friday around the port city, which has been besieged by northern forces for most of the war.
Southern forces in the country's 1 1/2-month-old civil war claimed to have inflicted hundreds of casualties on the northerners as well.
