Yemeni snipers kill three Saudi troopers in retaliatory attacks

Yemeni army soldiers, backed by fighters from allied Popular Committees, have shot dead three Saudi soldiers in the kingdom’s southwestern border region of Jizan, in retaliation for the Riyadh regime’s military campaign against the crisis-hit country.

Yemeni forces shot and killed the soldiers in al-Ghawi village as well as al-Dokhan and Qaem Zubaid military bases in the region, located 967 kilometers southwest of the capital Riyadh, on Monday afternoon, Arabic-language al-Masirah television network reported.

Later in the day, eight civilians lost their lives and five others sustained injuries when Saudi military aircraft struck their vehicle as it was travelling along a road in the Ahem area of Yemen’s northwestern province of Hajjah.

Saudi warplanes also carried out an aerial attack against a residential area in the al-Dhaher district of Yemen’s mountainous northwestern province of Sa’ada.

There were, however, no immediate reports on possible casualties and the extent of damage caused.