120 Saudi Forces Killed in Yemeni Ballistic Missile Strike

Sunday, 20 December 2015

120 Saudi Forces Killed in Yemeni Ballistic Missile Strike

Local Editor

Yemeni forces said they managed to kill 120 troops working for the Saudi-led war on Yemen in a ballistic missile attack in the country's central province of Ma'rib.

The Yemeni army, backed by popular committees loyal to the Ansarullah revolutionaries, targeted a military camp with a Tochka ballistic missile on Friday afternoon, in which number of Saudi soldiers were among the dead.

Earlier in the day, Yemeni forces also launched two other ballistic missiles towards military bases in Saudi Arabia's southwestern Najran region. One of them, a Tochka missile, was intercepted by Saudi forces in the Yemeni airspace and fell in the vicinity of Ma'rib city. The other one, a Yemeni ballistic missile named "Qaher 1", hit a desert area eastwards of the city of Najran.

Relatively, according to the Saudi Press Agency, the Saudi Coalition Forces Command confirmed the news in a statement without mentioning the number of casualties and the extent of damage inflicted.

Yemenis carry out these attacks in retaliation for Saudi strikes, launched with the aim of undermining Ansarullah movement and bringing back to power the country's fugitive former president, Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, a staunch ally of Riyadh.

In parallel, tribal sources in the province of Jawf reported on Friday that pro-Hadi militants seized control of the provincial capital of Hazm, taking advantage of the UN-backed ceasefire amid ongoing peace talks on the conflict in the country.

All developments occurred while a seven-day ceasefire was supposed to be in place since Tuesday. The truce was declared by the UN to pave the way for Yemen's Ansarullah movement and representatives of the former government to engage in peace talks in the northern Switzerland.

Also on Friday, Saudi warplanes violated the ceasefire and hit a residential neighborhood in the al-Kitaf district of Sa'ada some 240 kilometers north of Sanaa, leaving 23 people dead.

In all, more than 7,500 people have been killed and over 14,000 others injured since the strikes began in March. The Saudi war has also taken a heavy toll on the impoverished country's facilities and infrastructure.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

19-12-2015 | 09:04

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