Alwaght- The Saudi regime has confirmed that at least 37 people have been injured in a Yemeni missile retaliatory attack carried out in response to the kingdom’s military aggression against the impoverished neighbor.
The Yemeni army and popular committees backed by Ansarullah movement fired the missile at a Saudi National Guard camp in the southern province of Najran on late Wednesday. In the rare announcement through state-owned propaganda outlet, Al Arabiya TV on Thursday night, Saudi officials said they had “intercepted” the missile and the injuries were caused by shrapnel. According to the report, 23 of the injured were taken to hospital while the remaining 14 were treated on site.
The debris also damaged 19 cars and 15 buildings. Dozens of people were evacuated as a result of the attack, the report added. The latest strike by Yemeni forces brings the tally of missile attacks to 185 since the beginning of the war in March 2015, the Saudi coalition says, adding that at least 112 people have been killed in the attacks. This is among the very few official figures that Riyadh has allowed to be released on its own death toll throughout the war.
Saudi Arabia, backed by the US, UK and the Israeli regime, launched its war on Yemen in March 2015 in an attempt to crush Ansarullah and reinstate former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, who is a staunch ally of the Riyadh regime. More than 15,000 people have been killed since the onset of the campaign more than two and a half years ago. Much of the Arabian Peninsula country's infrastructure, including hospitals, schools and factories, has been reduced to rubble due to the war. Another 2,100 people have died of cholera since April as hospitals struggle to secure basic supplies across the country.
