58 combatants killed in fighting for Yemen's Hodeida
Medics at hospitals inside the city reported 47 rebels had been killed in overnight ground fighting and air raids by a Saudi-led coalition supporting the government.
Yemeni pro-government forces advance into rebel-held Hodeida on November 6, 2018 as they press a five-month battle for control of the strategic Red Sea port city
Sources at hospitals in government-held areas on the outskirts said 11 soldiers had also been killed.
Over the past week, Yemeni government forces backed by coalition troops have slowly edged into the city of some 600,000 people, one of the last rebel strongholds on the Red Sea coast.
An army source in Hodeida said rebel trenches and landmines had slowed their advance into the city on Thursday.
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Nearly 80 percent of Yemen's commercial imports and practically all UN-supervised humanitarian aid pass through Hodeida.
Aid groups have appealed to both the rebels and the coalition to allow civilians to escape the fighting.
The rebels have controlled Hodeida since 2014 when they overran the capital Sanaa and then swept though much of the rest of the country, triggering Saudi-led military intervention the following year and a devastating war of attrition.
Government forces backed by significant numbers of United Arab Emirates ground troops launched an offensive to retake the city in June.
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