‘Two Saudi Soldiers Killed on Yemen Border’

Date: 27 May 2018 - 21:39

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RIYADH (Dispatches) – Saudi Arabia says two of its troops have been killed in a battle against Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah fighters on the kingdom’s southern border.
The fatalities were from the "national guard” but withheld information on when or how the troops had been killed, the official Saudi Press Agency said.
The Saudi military had downed a drone near the international airport in the city of Abha, the capital of the kingdom's southwestern Asir region, the agency also said
Yemen’s Army said it struck the positions of Saudi-backed militants in the western Yemen province of Hajjah with a Qaher 2 ballistic missile.
Meanwhile, Yemen’s al-Masirah television network published a video of the aftermath of a Saturday attack by Saudi warplanes on the capital Sana’a.
Witnesses said the attack took place just before sunset as people prepared to break the dawn-to-dusk Islamic fast of Ramadan.
Four people were killed and 15 others injured in the attack that targeted a gas station, medical sources said.
The video showed a local pointing to a car, saying it was carrying a child and a woman who died in the attack.
Meanwhile, at least four people were killed and at least ten others were wounded after an airstrike allegedly carried out by the Saudi-led coalition in Sana'a, on Saturday.
According to Yemeni officials, the Saudi-led coalition launched an airstrike, targeting a gas station affiliated to a state-run oil company in Yemen's capital. Earlier in the day, eight other airstrikes were reportedly carried out in Hodeidah province, hitting the communications networks in Salif city.
The Saudi-led bombing campaign continues in Yemen with U.S. backing, with casualty figures exceeding 16,200 people since the beginning of the conflict in March 2015.
A reported 40,000 have been injured and more than two million people have been displaced.
The war devastating Yemen is now in its fourth year, with human rights organizations repeatedly accusing the Saudi-led coalition of targeting civilian areas.
More than 14,000 have died and upwards of 55,000 wounded in the invasion, which seeks to restore Yemen’s Riyadh-allied former government.
More than 2,200 others have died from a cholera outbreak, which has taken hold of the county as its health infrastructure has been majorly destroyed by the invaders. Millions more are on the verge of famine amid an all-out blockade by Saudi Arabia.

This file photo shows Saudi border forces launching more attacks on Yemen.