28 Mar 2024
Wednesday 6 April 2016 - 14:36
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Yemeni rocket kills 70 Saudi mercenaries in Jawf: TV



Yemeni forces have killed scores of Saudi mercenaries in the war-hit countrys northern province of al-Jawf, local reports say.

According to a report onYemen's al-Masirah news website, the rockethit a building belonging to Saudi mercenaries late Tuesday and killed 70 of them. At least 100 others were injured in the attack, it said.

Local sources said thedeath toll mayincrease as the position was targeted while the mercenaries were distributing arms and munitions among themselves.

Saudi state television said that three people were killed in shelling by Yemeni forces on the kingdoms southern province of Jizan.

The report said the shelling happened around 5 p.m. Tuesday and the child died at a local hospital.

Saudi warplanes bombed an area in al-Zabab region in southern Yemen andthe Hayran city in the northwestern province of Hajjah, al-Masirahreportedwithout saying if there were any casualties.

The attacks came despite a ceasefire announced by bothHouthi and Saudi officials.

On Monday, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said that a Houthi delegation was in the Arab kingdom to hold peace discussions.

A Houthispokesman, Mohammed Abdulsalam, saidon Tuesdaya ceasefire was reached with Saudi Arabia to halt operations in a number of Yemeni provinces.

He saidthe truce would pave the way for peace talks between Ansarullah and former president Abd Rabbouh Mansour Hadis loyalists.

 



[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="550"] People look through a hole caused by a Saudi airstrike on a bridge in Yemen's capital, Sanaa, on March 23, 2016. Reuters[/caption]

Last month, the UN special envoy to Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, announced that the former government and the Houthi Ansarullah movement had agreed to halt hostilities on April 10 ahead of a new round of peace talks to be held in Kuwait on April 18.

Saudi Arabia is under growing pressure as its protracted war hasground into a no-win situation.In February, Saudi military spokesmanBrigadier General Ahmed Asiri acknowledged thatthe kingdom was stuck in a static war against its southern neighbor.

Riyadh is also coming under an unprecedented chorus of criticism from around the world over rising civilian casualties and destruction in Yemen.

Negotiations suggest Riyadh's submission to Houthi demands. The group had longmaintained that any talks must be held with the Saudis as their main adversary in the war, and not with Hadi.

Saudi Arabia has been waging a war on Yemensince late March 2015 in a bid to return Hadi to power. Nearly 9,400 Yemenis, including 4,000 women and children, have lost their lives in the deadly military campaign.

Yemenis, in return, have been carrying out retaliatory attacks on the Saudi forces deployed in the country as well as targets inside Saudi Arabia.

By Press TV

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