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More than 40 Yemenis have reportedly been killed in Saudi airstrikes as well as clashes between the country’s armed forces and militiamen loyal to resigned president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, military and medical officials said.
The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said on Monday that the skirmishes and aerial attacks in the Jabal al-Nar area, east of the Red Sea port city of Mukha in Ta’izz Province, had left scores of Yemeni fighters dead.
Unnamed medical sources said ten pro-Hadi militiamen had also been killed and 15 others wounded in the confrontations.
Meanwhile, three civilians lost their lives and two others sustained injuries when a bomb attack targeted the convoy of a military commander.
Elsewhere, Yemeni soldiers, backed by fighters from the Popular Committees, have shot dead a Saudi trooper in the kingdom’s southwestern border region of Jizan in retaliation for Riyadh’s military campaign.
Yemeni forces shot and killed the Saudi trooper in Wadi al-Ma’ayen district on Monday evening, Arabic-language al-Masirah television network reported.
Earlier in the day, Yemeni soldiers and their allies fatally shot a Saudi soldier at al-Farizeh military base in the same Saudi region.
Yemeni snipers also shot dead two soldiers in the al-Makhrouq military base of Najran region.
The Saudis have been bombing Yemen since March 2015 in the hope of reinstating the ousted Hadi regime. However its coalition has been unable to achieve any of its stated objectives, resorting instead to the collective punishment of the Yemeni people, which includes the indiscriminate slaughter of civilians and starving the population.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
