Yemeni Ansarullah snipers kill three Saudi troops in Najran

Snipers of Yemen's popular Ansarullah movement have killed three Saudi troops in the kingdom's southern regions.

Yemen's al-Masirah television network reported on Wednesday that the Saudi soldiers were killed during Yemeni operations in the Najran region.

A large number of Saudi forces and mercenaries were also injured in the Yemeni attack.

Earlier in the day, the Yemeni military announced that at least 82 Saudi forces were killed and 41 injured in the Saudi provinces of Jizan, Najran and Assir in April.

It also noted that 55 were killed and 53 wounded in March.

Meanwhile, the Ansarullah movement announced that it would be increasing its strikes on Saudi Arabia's oil facilities in retaliation for the kingdom's war on its impoverished neighbor.

Mohammad al-Bukhaiti, a top figure in the movement's Supreme Political Council, told The Financial Times that the fighters were manufacturing their own missiles, dismissing Riyadh's accusation that Iran was delivering the projectiles to the fighters.

On Saturday, the Ansarullah fired eight missiles at a number of “economic and vital targets” in the southwestern Saudi region of Jizan. Yemen’s Arabic-language al-Masirah television network cited a military source as saying that the projectiles hit their targets with great precision.

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