Press TV - Dozens of Saudi-sponsored militiamen loyal toYemen's resigned president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, have been killed and scoresof others sustained injuries when Yemeni army forces separately fired two domestically-manufactured ballistic missiles at their base in the country痴 southwestern province of Ta段zz as well as the western coastal province of Hudaydah.
A Yemeni military source, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Yemen痴 Arabic-language al-Masirah television network that Yemeni soldiers and their allies launched a short-rangeZelzal-2(Earthquake-2)missileat the Saudi mercenaries in the Maqbanah districtof Ta段zz.
The source added that the attack left an unidentified number of Hadi loyalists dead and injured.
Earlier in the day, many Saudi-sponsored militiamen lost their lives and sustained injuries when Yemeni soldiers and allied fighters fired a Qaher M-2(Subduer M-2) ballistic missileat their position in Hudaydah.
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This file photo shows three domestically designed and manufactured Qaher M-2 (Subduer M-2) missiles in the Yemeni capital city of Sana誕. (Photo by the media bureau of Yemen痴 Joint Operations Command)[/caption]TheYemeni Ministry of Human Rightsannounced in astatementon March 25 that the Saudi-led war had left 600,000 civilians dead and injured since March 2015.
The United Nations says a record 22.2 million Yemenis are in need of food aid, including 8.4 million threatened by severe hunger.
A high-ranking UN aid official recently warned against the 田atastrophic living conditions in Yemen, stating that there was a growing risk of famine and cholera there.
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A Yemeni soldier stands in the rubble of a destroyed house in the aftermath of a Saudi airstrike in a neighborhood in the Yemeni capital city of Sana誕 on June 6, 2018. (Photo by AFP)[/caption]撤eople's lives have continued unraveling. Conflict has escalated since November driving an estimated 100,000 people from their homes,箱John Ging, UN director of aid operations, told the UN Security Council on February 27.
Ging said cholera had infected 1.1 million people in Yemen since last April, and a new outbreak of diphtheria had occurred in the war-ravaged Arab country since 1982.
