Local Editor
Six soldiers from the United Arab Emirates were killed in a vehicle collision in Yemen, the UAE’s state news agency WAM reported on Friday without elaborating or offering a location or time for the incident.
Details about what happened remained vague, with the state-run WAM news agency citing the General Command of the UAE Armed Forces for the information. However, Yemeni officials speaking to The Associated Press said the troops were killed in a road crash in southern Yemen.
No details of the crash nor the vehicles involved were given.
The UAE is a member of a Saudi-led military coalition backing the resigned regime of former Yemeni President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi. But it has been scaling down its presence since June amid rising criticism of the war.
More than 100 UAE citizens have been killed in the war since the coalition intervened in March 2015 to forcefully restore the resigned Hadi regime.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
