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Yemeni army forces, supported by allied fighters from the Popular Committees, have intercepted and targeted an unmanned aerial vehicle belonging to the Saudi-led military coalition as it was flying in the skies over the country’s northwestern province of Hajjah.
The Spokesman for Yemeni Armed Forces Brigadier General Yahya Saree said Yemeni forces and their allies shot down the drone while it was on a reconnaissance mission in al-Tina area of the Hayran district on Tuesday morning.
He identified the downed aircraft as a Chinese-made Phantom unmanned aerial vehicle.
The development came only a day after Yemeni air defense forces and their allies shot down a Turkish-built Vestel Karayel drone with a precision missile.
Saree said the aircraft was struck as it was on a surveillance mission over al-Salif coastal village in Yemen’s western province of Hodeida.
Earlier on Monday, Yemeni forces had intercepted and targeted a Saudi-led spy drone as it was flying over the Razih district of the country’s northwestern province of Saada.
Saudi Arabia and a number of its regional allies launched a devastating campaign against Yemen in March 2015, with the goal of bringing the government of former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi back to power and crushing the Houthi Ansarullah movement.
The US-based Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED), a nonprofit conflict-research organization, estimates that the war has claimed more than 100,000 lives over the past four and a half years.
The UN says over 24 million Yemenis are in dire need of humanitarian aid, including 10 million suffering from extreme levels of hunger.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
