A Shi'ite Houthi man walks on debris next to the wreckage of a car used by an al Qaeda suicide bomber during recent fighting in Rada November 22, 2014. REUTERS/Mohamed al-Sayaghi
SANAA (Reuters) - As fighting raged at the First Armoured Division's base in central Sanaa, General Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar arrived in a motorcade at the general staff headquarters and entered the building shouting "Treason! Treason!".
He grabbed some documents from a desk and left in a hurry, a defence ministry official said. Half an hour later, the commander of the Fourth Brigade Presidential Security turned up, collected his car and sped away.
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