Saudi Attacks Claim Three Lives in Yemen

Rasa - At least three Yemenis were killed in separate attacks by the Saudi military targeting Western Yemen.

News ID: 426470

Date: 11 January 2017 - 23:01

RNA - The Saudi aircraft on Wednesday bombarded the port city of al-Hodeida in Western Yemen, killing two people, Al Masirah reported.

Separately, Saudi border guards opened fire at residential structures in a village in the Monabbih district of Sa’ada Province, which is located in Yemen’s extreme Northwest. The attack left a civilian dead.

Saudi warplanes also dropped cluster bombs on the Wadi al-Jarrah base controlled by Yemeni forces in the kingdom’s Jizan region.

Also on Wednesday, counterattacks by Yemeni snipers killed two Saudi troops at Jizan’s al-Farizah military base.

Yemeni forces also aborted an attempt by Saudi-allied militants to advance in al-Ghayl District of Northwestern al-Jawf Province.

The operation killed and injured a number of the militants.

The Saudi war against Yemen, which started in March 2015, has so far killed over 12,800 people, according to some tallies by Yemeni sources.

The invasion is aimed at restoring power to Riyadh-allied former Yemeni president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi.

The Yemeni army, backed by Ansarullah fighters and allied popular forces, has been defending the country against the Saudi aggression.

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