Saudi Arabia says at least 500 Yemeni Houthi fighters have been killed since the kingdom and its allies launched a war on the impoverished Arab Peninsula country.
The fatalities were caused in border clashes, said a Saudi defense ministry statement on Saturday.
On Friday, three Saudi troops were killed in a mortar attack on the border, the statement added. According to Saudi authorities, three border guards were also killed last week.
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.
Sources close to the Houthi movement, which is also known as Ansarullah, said at least 1,000 people, including 200 children, have been killed in Yemen since the Saudi aggression against the state began on March 26.
Earlier on Saturday, Brigadier General Ahmed al-Assiri said in Riyadh that there had been 1,200 airstrikes between March 26 and midday Saturday.
He said the raids "will continue", adding, "At the appropriate time, we will take action on the ground".
Saudi Arabia’s military aggression against Yemen started, without a UN mandate, in a bid to restore power to the fugitive former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi.
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