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Saudi soldier killed in Yemen border clash

Saudi soldier killed in Yemen border clash

Middle East, News April 18, 2015 , by No Comments on Saudi soldier killed in Yemen border clash

At least one Saudi soldier has been killed in border clashes with Yemeni tribesmen in a southwestern region of the kingdom.

Brigadier General Ahmed al-Assiri told reporters there was continuous fighting from Friday afternoon until late that night along the frontier in the southwestern Saudi region of Najran.

“One of our Saudi soldiers was killed,” Assiri said, adding that the coalition has carried out more than 2,000 aerial sorties during the three-week campaign.

Western diplomats have said Saudi warplanes conducted most of the coalition strikes.

Three other Saudi soldiers and three members of the kingdom’s Border Guard force have also been killed in clashes along the southwestern frontier.

This is the seventh Saudi soldier killed since Riyadh began air campaign against its southern neighbor more than three weeks ago.

Saudi Arabia has deployed more troops and weaponry near its frontline with its ground forces shelling Yemen’s border regions over the past weeks.

This comes as popular committees backed by Ansarullah fighters of the Houthi movement have made fresh gains in Yemen’s southern port city of Aden and the southern province of Abyan.

The United Nations says hundreds of civilians have died in the fighting which has left food, water and other essentials in short supply.

Aid has only trickled into Yemen, largely because of restrictions imposed by the coalition on its airspace and ports.

Assiri said two cargo loads of relief supplies and food donated by Qatar and the United Arab Emirates have reached Aden and Yemen’s Red Sea city of Hodeida, via Djibouti in the Horn of Africa.

“Other cargos will follow in the coming days,” he said. “We will be speaking about a sea bridge to get aid to the Yemeni people.”

He reiterated that the movement of ships or aircraft must be coordinated with the coalition.

TN/YN/MSM/NT

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