Yemen's Houthi Rebels Release Video Purporting to Show Downed Moroccan Warplane

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Houthi followers hold up a defaced poster of Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi during a demonstration against the Saudi-led air strikes, in Sanaa May 8, 2015. Yemen's Houthi rebels broadcast video footage on Monday they said showed wreckage of a Moroccan F-16 warplane which Morocco said had gone missing in Saudi-led combat operations against the Iran-allied group. Khaled Abdullah/Reuters

DUBAI (Reuters) - Yemen's Houthi rebels broadcast video footage on Monday they said showed wreckage of a Moroccan F-16 warplane which Morocco said had gone missing in Saudi-led combat operations against the Iran-allied group.

The Houthi TV channel al-Masira said the plane was shot down by tribesmen loyal to the group in Saada province near Yemen's border with Saudi Arabia.

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