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Sunday 1 April 2018 - 22:24
Story Code : 299172

Yemeni forces, allies hit Saudi military base with ballistic missile



Press TV - Yemeni army forces, supported by allied fighters from Popular Committees, have fired a domestically-manufactured ballistic missile at a military base in Saudi Arabias southwestern border region of Jizanin retaliation for the Saudiregimes military campaign against the crisis-hit country, Yemeni media report.

A military source, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Yemens Arabic-language al-Masirah television network that the Qaher 2-M (Subduer 2-M) missile struck the base in the far-off areas of the region, located 966 kilometers (600 miles) south of the Saudi capital, Riyadh,on Sunday afternoon.

There were no immediate reports of casualties or the extent of damage caused.

Separately, scores of Saudi troops and Saudi-sponsored militiamen loyal to Yemen's former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, were killed or injured when Yemeni troops and their allies stormed their positions in Nahouqaharea of the same Saudi border region.



Also on Sunday, Yemeni sharpshooters fatally shot a Saudi trooper at Raqabah al-Halq base in the kingdom'sNajranregion, located 844kilometers(524 miles) south of Riyadh.

The developments came a day after Yemeni army forces and their allies targeted seven Saudi soldiers in Jizan and Najran regions.

Six Saudi troops were fatally shot at al-Haskoul baseinJizan, while the seventh was killed in Najrans al-Shabakah base.


[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="555"] A photo taken on March 18, 2018, shows a Yemeni child looking out at buildings damaged in a Saudi airstrike in the southern Yemeni city of Taizz. (Photo by AFP)[/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 catastrophic living conditions in Yemen, stating that there was a growing risk of famine and cholera there.



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 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.

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