Three Saudi Soldiers Killed in Clashes With Yemeni Army

Date: 15 October 2018 - 21:48

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SANAA (Dispatches) – At least three Saudi soldiers have been killed in clashes with Yemeni forces in border areas of the war-ravaged country, a report says.
Saudi Arabia’s pro-government Shohada al-Vajeb (Martyrs of the Military Service) group, which keeps track of Saudi military personnel killed since 2009, announced the news on its twitter account.
The group identified the troopers as Abdullah bin Mubarak, Ali Salem al-Ghamedi and Mohammad bin Faye al-Za’bi, who were all killed on the "southern borders.”
Saudi authorities rarely admit the kingdom’s military casualties. The kingdom has a policy of withholding information on the casualties it has suffered during the war on Yemen.
A report by Reuters published in April last year said that at least 400 Saudi soldiers had been killed in the cross-border fire since the start of the Saudi aggression against Yemen more than two years ago.
Meanwhile, a newly-surfaced video shows a mangled bus littered with groceries and a woman's hand bag after a Saudi airstrike on Yemen’s Hudaydah Province that killed civilians.
The Saudi planes targeted two buses that were carrying civilians fleeing the port city of Hudaydah, killing at least 17 civilians and wounding 20 others.
Yemen's Houthi Ansarullah movement released the video footage on Sunday as a proof that the passengers were civilians.
According to Yemenis sources, many women and children were among the casualties, including five members of the same family who were killed in the aerial attack on the vehicle.
Saudi Arabia began its invasion in March 2015 to restore power to Yemen’s former Riyadh-allied officials. According to Yemen's Health Ministry, around 15,000 people have died since the war began.
Hudaydah has become a flashpoint of the war being waged by Riyadh and its allies against the Arab world's poorest nation. It came under a concerted