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Soddys intercept 2 Houthi missiles
[Al Arabiya] Saudi Arabia has intercepted two ballistic missiles fired by Houthi militias from Yemen, according to the Saudi Press Agency.The Saudi military said early on Monday that it stopped one missile fired toward Marib in Yemen and a second targeting the Saudi city of Taif. Saudi state television aired a brief clip of what appeared to be a projectile landing in Taif and the flash of an explosion, following by images of emergency vehicles. The military said the missiles caused no damage. A Saudi-led Arab coalition has been battling Shiite Houthi militias in Yemen since March 2015. Houthi militias, as well as their allies are known to have a stockpile of Soviet-era Scud missiles and locally designed variants. 1 wounded in border artillery attacks [Saudi Gazette] A “military projectile” fired from the Yemeni side of the border hit a house in Saudi Arabia’s Jazan province on Sunday, wounding a 14-year-old boy. The house belonged to a Yemeni resident and the wounded boy was his son, the Saudi Press Agency reported quoting Civil Defense spokesman Maj. Yahya Bin Abdullah Al-Qahtani. It said the boy was rushed to hospital. Al-Qahtani said the Civil Defense was notified of the incident at 9.30 a.m. Sunday. The force immediately undertook necessary procedures followed in such cases. Posted by: badanov 2016-10-11 |
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