Yemeni man runs over, stabs to death Saudi policeman

A young Yemeni expatriate has run over and then stabbed to death a policeman in Saudi Arabia’s southwestern border region of Asir apparently in retaliation for the kingdom’s 16-month-old devastating aerial bombardment of his home country.

Corporal Muhthil al-Salouli “was deliberately run over and stabbed” in Bisha town more than 1,000 km south of Riyadh on Wednesday, Saudi police said.

Saudi security forces later arrested the unnamed assailant, who is said to be around 20 years of age, and are interrogating him.

Anger and resentment toward Saudi Arabia has been growing in Yemen where thousands of people have been killed in the kingdom's ferocious military campaign.  

Early on Thursday, Saudi military aircraft carried out a series of airstrikes against various neighborhoods of the Yemeni capital, Sana’a.

They launched two attacks against the al-Nahdain neighborhood in central Sana'a, and two others against the Dhabwah base on the outskirts of the capital. There were no immediate reports about possible casualties and the extent of damage.

Saudi warplanes also struck a residential building in the eastern Niqm neighborhood of Sana’a, though, no casualties were reported.

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