26 Apr 2024
Monday 5 December 2016 - 14:37
Story Code : 241654

Saudi jets attack Pakistani boat off Yemen, kill six sailors

Press TV- At least six Pakistani sailors have reportedly been killed after a Saudi strike targeted their boat off the Yemeni coast.

The Saudi air raid targeted the boat, which was carrying 12 Pakistani sailors off Mukha coast in the Yemeni province of Taizz on Sunday, Yemens Saba news agency said.

According to the report, the other six sailors are still unaccounted for.

The deadly raid comes amid the Riyadh regime continues its brutal military campaign against neighboring Yemen, which was launched in March 2015 to reinstall the former Yemeni government.

Yemens former president Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi has ordered a major assault on the countrys Red Sea coast against Houthi Ansarullah fighters and allied army forces, who have been defending the nation against a deadly Saudi offensive.

Reports said on Sunday that Saudi warplanes had intensified their air raids on the province of Taizz, which has witnessed heavy fighting on the ground between pro-Hadi militants and Yemeni armed forces in recent days.

Meanwhile, a child was killed as Saudi fighter jets bombed residential buildings in the province of Saada.

The girls father and two of her brothers were also injured in the attack, which targeted the provinces district of Razih.

In the same province, another airstrike hit the Baqim district and left a Yemeni woman dead and two children wounded.

The Saudi military aggression has left at least 11,400 civilians dead, according to the latest tally by a Yemeni monitoring group.
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