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Saudi Arabia said Thursday it tested a new siren system for the capital Riyadh and oil-rich Eastern Province, the day after Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah revolutionaries fired three ballistic missiles at the kingdom.
The Saudi civil defence posted a video on its official site of the alarm system being tested.
It said in a statement the system was designed to “face risks of all kinds” and alert the population “in case of emergency”.
Yemen’s Houthis have in recent months ramped up missile attacks against neighbouring Saudi Arabia, which leads a military coalition against them.
The movement announced they had fired two ballistic missiles at Riyadh and a third at the southern city of Jizan near the border, on Wednesday alone.
A spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition said the kingdom’s air defences intercepted all three, in statements carried by the state-run Saudi Press Agency.
Riyadh has long accused Tehran of supplying the rebels with ballistic missiles, a charge the latter rejects.
Saudi Arabia and its allies launched a military campaign against Yemen in 2015 with the aim of pushing back the Houthis and forcefully reinstating the regsigned regime of former Yemeni President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi to power.
The aggression has killed more than 9,479 people and wounded more than 55,000 wounded according to the World Health Organization.
More than 2,200 others have died of cholera and millions are on the verge of famine in what the United Nations says is the world’s gravest humanitarian crisis.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
