Yemeni forces kill Saudi soldier in cross border attack

Yemeni forces have killed a Saudi soldier in a cross border shelling attack in the kingdom’s southern province of Najran, in retaliation for Riyadh's aggression against its impoverished southern neighbor.

According to reports, in a statement released by the Saudi Interior Ministry on Sunday afternoon, the border guard, identified as Mohammed Yahya al-Najee, was killed after “an advanced border post in Najran Region was subject to intensive fire and military projectiles” launched from a Yemeni border region earlier in the day.

The statement, carried by the state-run SPA news agency, added that army troops then intervened to support the border guards.

The retaliatory attack came after Saudi airstrikes on Sunday morning pounded Yemeni houses and places of gatherings in Maton district of the northwestern province of Jawf, killing at least six people and wounding a number of others.

Saudi warplanes also bombed the Haydan district in the neighboring province of Sa’ada as well as the port city of Mokha in the southwestern province of Ta’izz. They also conducted at least four air raids on Kholan district in the western province of Sana'a. There were no immediate reports about the possible casualties caused by these airstrikes.

Yemen’s Ansarullah fighters and their allies in Yemen’s army have been launching retaliatory strikes against parts of Saudi territory adjacent to northern Yemen, as well as the gatherings of Riyadh-allied militants inside Yemen.

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