Yemeni Forces Destroy Saudi Warship in Bab al-Mandab Strait
Local Editor
Yemeni army soldiers backed by allied popular committees loyal to Ansarullah revolutionary fighters have launched a missile attack against a Saudi warship and managed to destroy.
The warship was wrecked off the southwestern coast of Yemen on Wednesday, in the Bab al-Mandab Strait, which connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden, the SABA news agency reported.
Other Saudi battleships fled the area following the attack, it added.
The sunken ship had repeatedly fired rockets on residential areas in the southwestern province of Ta’izz, inflicting casualties and destruction there, the report said.
Earlier on Wednesday, a Saudi soldier was killed in another retaliatory rocket attack by Yemeni forces on a military base in Saudi Arabia’s southwestern province of Jizan. The Saudi Interior Ministry has admitted to the death of the trooper.
On March 26, Saudi Arabia and some of its Arab allies backed by the United States began to launch a military aggression against Yemen by launching air strikes against the country in an attempt to restore power to the fugitive former Yemeni President, Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Saudi Arabia.
The airstrikes have not been authorized by the UN.
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.
