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The United Arab Emirates has said that one of its warplanes taking part in a mission against Houthi revolutionaries in Yemen is missing.
The country’s official news agency, WAM, announced the disappearance without giving further details.
The Saudi-led coalition of which UAE is a part has been carrying out air strikes since March 2015 in support of fugitive former President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi.
It is the first known loss of an Emirati jet in the conflict.
Officials have not yet announced the type of jet lost, or whether any pilots were harmed.
The UAE Air Force operates both F-16 and Mirage 2000 fighter jets.
In December, a Bahraini F-16 crashed in Saudi Arabia due to a "technical error", while in May a Moroccan warplane came down over Yemen.
Both jets were taking part in the Yemen military aggression.
About 8,300 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.
However, Yemeni forces including the popular committees backed by the Houthi Ansarullah revolutionaries have been engaged in retaliatory attacks against the Coalition forces deployed in the country as well as targets inside Saudi Arabia.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
