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Senior Saudi commander killed near Yemen border

Soldiers stand on a Saudi tank on the outskirts of the southern Yemeni port city of Aden on August 3, 2015. (AFP)

 

A senior Saudi military commander has been killed in the country’s southwestern province of Asir near the border with Yemen.

The commander, identified as Naser al-Ahmari (seen below), was slain in rocket strikes launched by Yemeni forces in al-Rabuah area of the province, Yemen-based Arabic-language Khabar news agency reported on Friday.

Several other Saudi soldiers were also killed and a number of military vehicles were destroyed as Yemeni army forces and allied popular committees targeted the area with dozens of rockets in retaliatory attacks, the news agency further added.

Yemeni forces also targeted a Saudi military base in Jizan, a province in Saudi Arabia's southwest, with rockets and artillery fire and destroyed an armored vehicle and several other military vehicles.

The picture taken on September 17, 2015, shows a Yemeni boy standing in the rubble of buildings, which were destroyed during Saudi airstrikes, in the capital, Sana’a. (AFP)

Earlier in the day, Saudi warplanes carried out at least 15 airstrikes on Harad district of Yemen’s southwestern Hajjah province and 14 airborne strikes on Shida district in northwestern province of Sa’ada. A Saudi missile attack also hit the Munabbih district of Sa’ada.

There is still no word on the extent of damage and possible casualties inflicted by the raids.

Saudi Arabia launched its military aggression against Yemen on March 26 – without a United Nations mandate – in a bid to undermine the Houthi Ansarullah movement and restore power to fugitive Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, who is a staunch ally of Riyadh.

Christophe Boulierac, spokesman for the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), said on Friday that 505 children have been killed and 702 others wounded since late March.

According to Rupert Colville, the spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the total number of civilian casualties in the six months since 26 March reaches 7,217, including 2,355 killed and 4,862 wounded.


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