According to a report in Middle-East-based Al Masdar News, the Argentinian soldier suffered grievous injuries during a battle within the Al-Omari camp near the strategic city of Taiz.
The mercenary has been identified as Ferdinand Lamos. He was being transported on a US naval vessel when he died of his wounds.
Lamos is reportedly the first Argentinian to have died in Yemen. He was reportedly a former member of the "Foreign Legions", a military contracting company with ties to the Blackwater group.
Meanwhile, local media reported that a British national, provisionally named as Colonel Arthur Kingston, died alongside an Australian and a group of Colombian mercenaries known to have been operating against the Yemeni army and popular committees.
An Australian named Phillip Streetman and ten Colombian mercenaries are also said to have died.
The Daily Mail reported that due to a lack of British consular presence in the area the Foreign Office has been unable to confirm the death of a British citizen.
Al-Madser news, a regional Arabic channel, has reported that a total of fifteen soldiers of fortune may have been killed, including a Mexican and a Frenchman.
Last month, reports had emerged that at least 450 Latin American mercenaries were deployed in Yemen by the United Arab Emirates, one of the nine Arab countries that are part of the Saudi Arabia-led intervention that aims to bring back the fugitive former President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi to power.
According to a New York Times report, this is the first time a foreign army, which consists of mostly Colombian mercenaries besides Panamanian, Salvadoran and Chilean soldiers trained privately by the UAE, has been dispatched to Yemen.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
