29 Mar 2024
Monday 11 May 2015 - 13:54
Story Code : 164314

Yemens Houthi fighters bring down Saudi fighter jet: Report

Houthi Ansarullah fighters in Yemen have shot down a Saudi fighter jet violating the countrys airspace in the northern Saada Province, a report says.

Ansarullah fighters brought down the fighter jet in the Noshour Valley in Saada on Monday, Yemens al-Massirah television reported.

Also on Monday, the Moroccan army announced that an F-16 fighter jet belonging to the African countrys armed forces had gone missing during a mission to carry out an airstrike against Yemen.

The plane has been missing since 6 p.m. local time (1500 GMT) on Sunday, an army statement quoted by Moroccan state news agency MAP said early on Monday.

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="555"] A boy sits as Yemenis wait to fill jerry cans with water from a public tap amid an acute shortage of water supply to houses in the capital, Sanaa, May 9, 2015. ( AFP)[/caption]

Moroccan fighter jets have conducted a number of air raids against Yemen in tandem with Saudi Arabia, which started its airstrikes on Yemen on March 26 - without a UN mandate - in a bid to undermine the Houthi Ansarullah movement and to restore power to Yemens fugitive former President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a staunch ally of Riyadh.

Saudi Arabia has been blocking the delivery of relief supplies to the war-stricken people of Yemen in defiance of calls by international aid groups.

According to the latest UN figures, the Saudi military campaign has so far claimed the lives of over 1,400 people and injured close to 6,000 people, roughly half of them civilians.

By Press TV
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