ADEN: Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi has relieved prime minister and Vice President Khaled Bahah of his duties in government, a presidency source told AFP on Sunday.

Hadi appointed Ahmed bin Dagher, a former leading figure in the General People’s Congress party to which the president once belonged, as prime minister, the source said.

He appointed veteran General Ali Mohsen Al-Ahmar as vice president, according to the same source, who said Bahah would now serve as a presidential adviser.

Separately, three civilians were killed in east Yemen on Sunday when rockets fired by Iran-backed rebels hit a government hospital, the facility’s director and a local official said.

The attack wounded 17 other people, said the director of the Marib General Hospital Authority, Shawqi Al-Sharjabi.

A government official in Marib city told AFP that rockets were fired by rebels from the Haylan mountains overlooking the provincial capital.