Yemen hits Saudi command center with ballistic missile

Yemeni army forces have destroyed a military command center in Saudi Arabia’s southern province of Najran after targeting it with a domestically-manufactured ballistic missile, a Yemeni military official says.

Brigadier General Yahya Saree, the spokesman for the Yemeni Armed Forces, told Yemen’s Arabic-language al-Masirah news website that the short-range ballistic missile successfully hit a command center in Saqqam area.

He added that the missile had been launched early on Sunday, destroying the base and leaving a large number of Saudi-led troops either killed or wounded.

The missile launch came a few hours after fresh drone attacks by Yemeni forces on an airport in Najran.

Saree had said earlier in the day that the Yemeni forces used Qasif-K2 combat drones to first target a command and control center at the Najran airport and later hangers and military sites there.

He said the drones had successfully hit their targets and halted air traffic at the airport.

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