Yemeni snipers shoot dead five Saudi soldiers in Jizan

Yemeni army soldiers, supported by fighters from allied Popular Committees, have shot dead five 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.

The media bureau of Yemen’s Ansarullah movement reported on Wednesday that Yemeni forces had fatally shot the troopers in the region's Quwa and Hamezah villages, Arabic-language al-Masirah television network reported. 

Later in the day, Yemeni sharpshooters killed two Saudi troopers in Quwa village.

Yemeni troops and their allies also detonated an explosive device south of Hamezah, targeting a Saudi armored vehicle and killing all those on board.

Meanwhile, an unnamed Yemeni military source said gunmen have shot and killed Colonel Mohammad Qasem al-Hariri, a security officer loyal to resigned President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, north of the southern port city of Aden.

In another development, Saudi warplanes carried out two aerial attacks against an outdoor market in the Mawza district of Yemen's Southern Province of Ta'izz, leaving a number of civilians martyred and injured.

Elsewhere in the Nihm district of the northwestern Yemeni province of Sa'ada, Saudi fighter jets launched three airstrikes, but there have been no immediate reports of casualties.

At least 14,000 people have been martyred since the onset of Saudi Arabia’s military campaign against Yemen in 2015. Much of the Arabian Peninsula country's infrastructure, including hospitals, schools and factories, has been reduced to rubble due to the war.

The Saudi-led war has also triggered a deadly cholera epidemic across Yemen.

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