Battlefield commanders announced that the Yemeni army and popular forces have held captive tens of Saudi military men, including senior intelligence officers.
"The Yemeni forces have captured 50 Saudi military men, including two senior intelligence officers, in a special operation conducted against the kingdom’s troops in Najran province," Senior Ansarullah Commander Ali al-Hamzani told FNA on Sunday.
Al-Hamzani noted that the Yemeni forces could also take full control over a Saudi military base, including its tanks and armored vehicles.
"The Yemeni army and popular forces also managed to explode all watch-towers along the border region and torch their armored vehicles in the Southern part of Saudi Arabia," he added.
Al-Hamzani reiterated that a large number of Saudi military men fled the battlefield after several hours of clashes.
On Saturday, the Yemeni army and popular forces pounded an industrial zone in the Southern part of Saudi Arabia with as a scud missile.
The Saudi industrial area comprising a power plant and a desalination plant in al-Shaqiq region of Jizan province came under Yemen’s Scud missile attack.
The Yemeni ballistic missile precisely hit its target in Jizan Industrial zone, the army reported.
There is still no report on the number of casualties, but Yemen’s missile attacks usually inflict large casualties on the Saudis.
The Yemeni attacks came in response to Saudi Arabia’s continued air raids on the civilian population across the impoverished nation.
Saudi Arabia began its deadly campaign against Yemen in late March 2015. The strikes were meant to undermine the Houthi Ansarullah movement and restore power to fugitive former president Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi.
About 10,000 people have been killed and over 16,000 injured since Riyadh launched the airstrikes. The Saudi aggression has also taken a heavy toll on Yemen’s facilities and infrastructure.
Yemeni forces have been engaged in retaliatory attacks against the Saudi forces deployed in the country as well as targets inside Saudi Arabia.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
