Yemen's Saleh makes rare appearance

SANAA: Yemen's former president Ali Abdullah Saleh made his first appearance in Sanaa at the funeral of a colonel killed in clashes, according to media reports on Thursday.

Coverage of the funeral of Colonel Khaled Al Radhi, a high-ranking official in Saleh's General People's Congress who was killed along with two rebels in a shootout last week, aired on Al Yemen Al Yom television channel.

The footage, recorded on Wednesday, showed the former president praying over what the channel identified as Radhi's casket before addressing a crowd of mourners.

The appearance comes amid rumours that Saleh had either fled Sanaa or was under house arrest by the Al Houthi rebels.