Moroccan F-16 fighter jet goes missing over Yemen
An F-16 fighter jet belonging to the Moroccan armed forces has gone missing during a mission to carry out an airstrike against Yemen, the African country’s army says.
The plane has been missing since 6 p.m. local time (1500 GMT) on Sunday, an army statement quoted by Moroccan state news agency MAP said early on Monday.
According to the statement, the pilot of a second jet flying in formation said he did not see his comrade eject from the aircraft.
Moroccan fighter jets have conducted a number of air raids against Yemen in cooperation with Saudi Arabia, which started its airstrikes on Yemen on March 26 - without a UN mandate - in a bid to undermine the Houthi Ansarullah movement and to restore power to Yemen’s fugitive former President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a staunch ally of Riyadh.
The Al Saud regime has been blocking the delivery of relief supplies to the war-stricken people of Yemen in defiance of calls by international aid groups.
According to the latest UN figures, the Saudi military campaign has so far claimed the lives of over 1,400 people and injured close to 6,000 people, roughly half of them civilians.
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