Up to 42 people have reportedly been killed as the recently-brokered truce in Yemen appeared to be in tatters.<br /><br /> Both sides had agreed to a ceasefire in support of a prisoner exchange and to bolster United Nations-sponsored peace talks which resumed for a second day in Switzerland.<br /><br /> But clashes have broken out in the central city of Taiz and in several of the country’s regions. <br /><br /> The civil war has raged for nine months between the Iran-allied Houthi movement based in Yemen’s north and Saudi-backed southern and eastern fighters loyal to President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi<br /><br /> Both sides have accused the other of breaching the deal. <br /><br /> Amin Abdulla, a Pro-Hadi fighter, said: The Houthis are the ones that rejected the United Nations and Security Council resolutions and carried out attacks and struck residential homes and civilians and we are just defending ourselves”.<br /><br /> The prisoner swap would be one of the most positive signs yet in the civil war.<br /><br /> Some 360 members of the Houthi movement h
