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| Saudi jets kill 68 rebel officers |
| 2015-12-15 |
| Saudi warplanes and Apache helicopters killed 68 senior rebel officers in attacks on their positions across the border on Monday to avenge the death of one of its field army commanders, Saudi newspapers reported on Tuesday. “The Kingdom’s warplanes and Apache helicopters turned the areas of the coup rebels into an open mourning for their high-ranking officers,” ‘Sabq’ newspaper said. Sabq and other papers quoted military sources as saying the aircraft attacked rebel positions across the border and other areas and that 68 coup brigadiers and colonels were killed while 233 were injured. The report said 43 rebel snipers and seven Scud missile experts from the Iranian-backed insurgents were also killed by the raids and Saudi artillery and missile shelling. It said the attacks following the martyrdom of Saudi Colonel Abdullah Al Sahyan and UAE officer Sultan Al Kitbi on Monday "while they were carrying out their duties in supervising operations to liberate Taiz. |
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