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Three Saudi soldiers killed near Yemen border

Saturday, 11 April 2015 6:56 PM [ Last Update: Saturday, 11 April 2015 10:04 PM ]

Members of the Saudi border guard pose for pictures in the Ashiq island, in the southern Jizan province near the border with Yemen on April 1, 2015. (AFP Photo)

Three Saudi soldiers have been killed and two others injured during clashes near the Yemeni border, the media reports say.

The troopers were killed in a rocket attack by Houthis in the southern Najran province on Friday, according to a Saturday report by the Saudi Press Agency (SPA).

The Saudi Defense Ministry also confirmed the death toll on Saturday.

Earlier in the day, Arabic-language news website msader-ye.net reported that two Saudi border guards were killed during clashes with the Yemeni popular committees backed by Houthi revolutionaries at the Akameh region of the Najran province.

According to Saudi authorities, the incident brings the casualties of the Saudi border guards to six.

On April 3 two Saudi soldiers were killed during a border shootout between Saudi troopers and popular committees, a day after a Saudi soldier lost his life and 10 others sustained injuries in a similar exchange of fire across the Yemeni border.

A Yemeni officer stands next to a burnt truck following an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition in the Hays District of the province of Hodeidah, west of the capital Sanaa, on April 5, 2015. (AFP PHOTO)

Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia’s illegal military campaign against Yemen continues as Saudi bombers targeted two populated marketplaces in Sa’ada, in northern Yemen, on Saturday, killing at least two civilians and inflicting damage on the city’s infrastructure.

Saudi Arabia’s military aggression against Yemen started on March 26, without a UN mandate, in a bid to restore power to the fugitive former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi.

According to sources close to the ruling Ansarullah movement, at least a thousand people, including 200 children, have been killed in Yemen since the beginning of Saudi aggression.

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