28 Mar 2024
Saturday 17 March 2018 - 11:10
Story Code : 298047

Roadside bomb kills over dozen Saudi mercenaries in SW Yemen



Press TV - More than a dozen Saudi-backed militiamen loyal toYemen's resigned president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, have been killed when a roadside bomb explosion ripped through their military vehicle in the countrys southwestern province of Taizz.

A Yemeni military source, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Arabic-language al-Masirah television network that Yemeni troops and allied fighters from Popular Committees detonated a bomb as a vehicle was travelling north of Khalid military camp in the Mawza district, killing 14 Saudi mercenaries.

The source added that Yemeni soldiers and their allies also launched a number of artillery rounds at the gatherings of Saudi-backed militiamen in the same region, leaving scores of them killed and injured.

Yemeni snipers shoot dead Saudi soldier in Asir

Meanwhile, Yemeni snipers have shot and killed a Saudi trooper in the kingdoms southwestern border region of Asir in retaliation to the Riyadh regimes incessant aerial bombardment campaign against their impoverished and war-ravaged country.

An unnamed Yemeni military official said Yemeni forces fatally shot the Saudi soldier atSahwamilitarybase.


[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="555"] Yemenis check the damage in the aftermath of a Saudi airstrike in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on March 8, 2018. (Photo by AFP)[/caption]
About 14,000 people have been killed since the onset of Saudi Arabias military campaign against Yemen in March 2015. Much of the Arabian Peninsula country's infrastructure, including hospitals, schools and factories, has been reduced to rubble due to the war.

The United Nations says a record 22.2 million people are in need of food aid, including 8.4 million threatened by severe hunger.

A high-ranking UN aid official recently warned against the catastrophic living conditions in Yemen, stating that there is a growing risk of famine and cholera there.


[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="555"] A Yemeni infant receives a diphtheria vaccine at a health center in the capital Sanaa on March 14, 2018. (Photo by AFP)[/caption]
After three years of conflict, conditions in Yemen are catastrophic, John Ging, UN director of aid operations, told the UN Security Council on February 27.

He added, People's lives have continued unraveling. Conflict has escalated since November driving an estimated 100,000 people from their homes.

Ging further noted that cholera has infected 1.1 million people in Yemen since last April, and a new outbreak of diphtheria has occurred in the war-ravaged Arab country since 1982.

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