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Yemeni militia rocket artillery hammers Soddy border areas
Dubai/Najran - Over the past couple of days, Houthi and Ali Abdullah Saleh militia forces have been arbitrarily targeting Saudi civilian areas with rocket attacks, leaving at least five children dead and injuring tens of other adults.Three Saudi citizens, one woman and two men, where injured in Samtah district of Jazan early on Monday morning after a cross border rocket attack was launched near their home. Also during the day, a Saudi child, two Saudi women and an Ethiopian woman were injured in another cross border rocket attack by Yemeni militia forces in the Al Tawal district of Jazan. Moday’s attack come a day after a rocket fired from Yemen killed two girls on Sunday in the Saudi Arabian border city of Najran, as Houthi militias escalated their attacks after the collapse of political talks to end the 17-month conflict. The attack also injured five other family members was another attack on the city a day after a 3-year-old boy was killed and his 9-year-old cousin injured when a Katyusha rocket fired from Yemeni territory hit their Najran home in the kingdom’s southern region. In the city of South Dhahran, a total of nine rockets attacked the city – three of them targeted a Quran school compound while six rockets fell into citizens’ homes in the West Raheeb neighborhood. No one of was killed or injured in the attacks. In Jazan’s Al Tawal district, another rocket targeted a citizen’s home, which led to death of a child and injuring two female relatives. Late on Saturday night, a child was killed and his mother seriously injured when a rocket hit their home in southern Najran. The child, Nawaf Salem al-Abbas, was 11-years-old. Posted by: badanov 2016-08-31 |
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