Yemeni forces kill 50 Saudi troops in missile attack
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Tanks and armored vehicles of the Saudi army are deployed on the outskirts of the southern Yemeni port city of Aden on August 3, 2015. (AFP)
Yemeni forces have managed to kill at least 50 Saudi troops, including commanders, in a ballistic missile attack in the country’s Northern Jawf Province.
The Yemeni army, backed by Popular Committees loyal to the Ansarullah movement, targeted a Saudi military installation in Beir al-Maraziq region with a Qaher 1 ballistic missile in the early hours of Wednesday, Yemen's Arabic-language al-Masirah news website added that a large number of Saudi troopers have also sustained injuries in the attack.
The Yemeni surface-to-surface missile also destroyed a number of military equipment of the installation and inflicted heavy damage to its infrastructure.
Separately, Yemeni forces targeted a gathering of the Saudi military and armored vehicles with artillery shelling in the al-Waze'yah district of the Southwestern Ta'izz Province and caused damage to the vehicles.
Yemenis carry out these attacks in retaliation for Saudi strikes, launched with the aim of undermining Ansarullah movement and bringing back to power the country’s fugitive former President, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, a staunch ally of Riyadh.
Meanwhile, Saudi warplanes carried out multiple airstrikes on al-Matammah town in Jawf and martyred at least 13 people. The aerial aggression targeted trucks carrying foodstuff.
Saudi Apache choppers also bombarded Khokha town in the Western Province of Hudaydah later in the day.
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