Nearly 200 people are said to have died in the fighting that has embroiled the southern Yemeni city of Aden for nine days.<br /><br /> The figure comes from a senior health official who also speaks of more than 1,000 injured.<br /><br /> The head of Aden’s health department, Al-Khader Lassouar, told AFP that by midnight on Friday, 185 deaths and 1,282 injuries had been registered at the city’s hospitals.<br /><br /> Three-quarters of the victims were civilians, he said, adding that the actual total could be higher as casualties among rebel forces are unknown.<br /><br /> Warplanes from Saudi Arabia have dropped weapons to help forces loyal to Yemen’s president push back Houthi rebels who are now said to have withdrawn from the centre of Aden.<br /><br /> President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi remains in Saudi Arabia after fleeing the city.<br /><br /> Saudi Arabia and other Sunni Muslim states are trying to stop the Iranian-allied Houthis and former President Ali Abdullah Saleh from winning control of Yemen.<br /><br /> But while the strikes are said to have s
