Update From Yemen: President wounded in rocket strike

Tribal leader Sheikh Sadiq al-Ahmar  is surrounded by bodyguards as he walks in his house

A Yemeni government official tells the Associated Press news agency that President Saleh has been moved to a hospital for treatment for wounds obtained in shelling attack on the presidential palace in capital Sanaa.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity as he is not authorised to comment to the press, did not say why Saleh was taken to the Defense Ministry hospital, AP reported.