Saudi-led coalition says Yemen government did not request truce: Saudi-owned TV

CAIRO (Reuters) - The Saudi-led coalition that has bombed Yemen's dominant Houthi group for more than three months said on Saturday it had not received a request from the Yemeni government in exile to pause its campaign during a truce, Saudi-owned Arabiya TV said. The report came after Saudi-led air strikes and heavy shelling between warring factions shook several cities in Yemen overnight, residents said, violating a United Nations humanitarian truce which took effect just before midnight. "The leadership of the coalition: we did not receive a request from the Yemeni government regarding the truce," a news flash on the channel said on Saturday. (Reporting By Omar Fahmy and Noah Browning)