Alwaght- 81 Saudi-led forces were killed in a ballistic missile attack in Yemen's western Bab-el-Mandeb area, 42 Blackwater armed forces were reportedly among them.
Yemen's army backed by Ansarullah forces, in a retaliatory attack, targeted on Sunday night a Saudi-led coalition's military headquarters in Ta’izz province with a Tochka missile, Yemen-based al-Masirah news website reported.
23 Saudi, 9 Emirati, and 7 Moroccan forces, including a number of commanders, were also killed in the attack.
The ballistic missile also destroyed two Patriot missile systems, three Apache helicopters, more than 50 military vehicles, all belonging to the US Blackwater Worldwide security services company.
The report added that two Saudi warships were damaged while fleeing the incoming Katyusha rockets that were fired spontaneously due to the missile impact.
Elsewhere, a Yemeni ballistic missile, named Qaher 1, hit a regional airport in the Saudi region of Jizan. There were no immediate reports of possible casualties and the extent of damage inflicted.
Meanwhile, a Yemeni army spokesman said the forces killed some 20 Sudanese mercenaries in an attack on Yemen’s southwestern province of Lahij.
These attacks came after Saudi-led coalition launched indiscriminate airstrikes to undermine Ansarullah movement on the eve of UN-facilitated negotiations.
On Friday, Amnesty International slammed Saudi Arabia’s deliberate strikes on schools in Yemen as war crimes, calling for the prosecution of those involved in the attacks.
The International Committee of the Red Cross in Yemen also warned of a humanitarian catastrophe in the country, documenting over 100 airborne attacks on hospitals since March. It warned that that hospitals and healthcare facilities are no longer safe places for people.
The World Health Organization said on Saturday that as of Nov. 12, the death toll in Yemen since March was 5,878 people. A total of 27,867 had been wounded during the same period. Other reports say over 7,600 Yemenis mostly women, children and the elderly have been killed during the nine months a brutal Saudi-led aggression on the impoverished country.
The illegal war on Yemen has inflicted damages on hundreds of important installations in the civilian infrastructure including hospitals, schools, mosques, residential quarters, water reservoirs etc.
