(VOVworld) – Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi rebels completed an exchange of hundreds of prisoners on Thursday, amid a fragile ceasefire and as UN-sponsored peace talks in Switzerland entered their third day.

Houthi fighters in the Taiz area, November 2015 (Photo: AFP)

Mokhtar al-Rabbash, a member of the prisoners’ affairs committee affirmed the information, saying that 370 Houthi rebels were exchanged for 286 pro-government fighters. The trade took place in the Yafaa district of the southern province of Lahj. Authorities speaking for the two sides’ authorities said the prisoner exchange is one of the most positive signs thus far in Yemen’s civil war, which has killed nearly 6,000 people.