Yemeni forces shoot down Saudi reconnaissance drone in Jizan

Yemeni army forces, supported by allied fighters from Popular Committees, have intercepted and targeted an unmanned aerial vehicle, belonging to the Saudi-led military coalition, as it was flying in the skies over the kingdom’s southwestern border region of Jizan.

An unnamed Yemen military source told Yemen’s Arabic-language al-Masirah television network that Yemeni air defense forces and their allies shot down the drone as it was on a reconnaissance mission over Hariqah area in the Wadi Jarrah district of the province, located 969 kilometers south of the capital Riyadh, on Friday evening.

Separately, Yemeni army forces and Popular Committees fighters fired three domestically-developed Zelzal-1 (Earthquake-1) ballistic missiles at a position of Saudi troops and Saudi-backed Yemeni militiamen loyal to former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi in the al-Khobe area of Jizan region, leaving a number of them killed and injured.

bulldozer belonging to Saudi forces was also destroyed after a barrage of Yemeni artillery rounds slammed into the strategic Jabal al-Doud military base in the same Saudi region.

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