Local Editor

Saudi Arabia admitted on Saturday that ten of its soldiers were also killed in the Toshka operation carried out on Friday by the Yemeni army against Saudi-led coalition forces in the country’s Marib.

Coalition spokesman General Ahmed Assiri was cited by Saudi online media as confirming the Saudi deaths in the explosion.

The missile operation also left 45 Emirati soldiers and five other Bahrainis killed, raising the death toll of the operation to 60.

On Friday, the Yemeni army and the popular committees said that they fired a Toshka ballistic missile at a weapons cache in a camp used by Gulf coalition forces in the central Marib area in Yemen, killing dozens of Emirati and Yemeni soldiers and destroying a number of Apache helicopters and armed vehicles.

The development came as a Saudi-led coalition backed by the United States has been carrying out a military aggression on Yemen by launching airstrikes against the country since March 26. The airstrikes have not been authorized by the United Nations [UN].

The US-led Saudi aggression began in a bid to undermine the Houthi Ansarullah movement and restore power to the country’s fugitive former Yemeni president, Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Saudi Arabia.

As a result, the Yemeni army backed by popular committees and tribal fighters has been responding to the aggression by targeting several Saudi border military posts and cleansing several areas across the country from Hadi and al-Qaeda-linked militias.