Thu Sep 14, 2017 04:55AM
A Saudi warplane has crashed in Yemen’s southern province
of Abyan for unknown reasons, killing the pilot onboard.
The Typhoon warplane crashed into a mountain in Al Wade'a
district on Wednesday, Yemen’s Saba news agency reported.
The report identified the pilot as Mahna al-Biz.
Last week, a UAE pilot was also killed in another
warplane crash in Yemen.
Saudi Arabia along with his allies -- Bahrain, Kuwait,
the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, and Sudan-- has been pounding
Yemen since March 2015 in an attempt to crush the popular Houthi Ansarullah
movement and reinstate the former Yemeni government, a close Riyadh ally.
Houthi fighters, backed by the Yemeni army and popular
forces, have been defending the country against the all-out aggression.
On the battlefield, Yemeni army forces on Wednesday
targeted Saudi-led mercenaries in the southwestern province of Lahij with
Katyusha rockets.
The missile units of Yemeni forces also shelled the
positions of the forces loyal to former Yemeni president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur
Hadi, in Yemen’s northwestern province of Hajjah. They also shelled Saudi
military forces in Saudi Arabia's southwestern Jizan region.
According to a report by Yemen’s Arabic-language
al-Masirah network, Yemeni snipers killed four Saudi-led mercenaries in
al-Hamly area, in Moze district in southwestern province of Ta’izz.
More than 12,000 people have been killed since the onset
of the Saudi campaign more than two and a half years ago. Much of the Arabian
Peninsula country’s infrastructure, including hospitals, schools and factories,
has been reduced to rubble due the war.
On Monday, the UN human rights chief called for urgent
investigation into Saudi Arabia’s airstrikes against civilians in Yemen.
The Saudi war has also triggered a deadly cholera
epidemic across Yemen.
According to data provided by the World Health
Organization and Yemen’s Health Ministry, the country’s cholera outbreak, the
worst on record in terms of its rapid spread, has infected 612,703 people and
killed 2,048 since it began in April, with some districts still reporting sharp
rises in new cases.
The United Nations says the Saudi war has left some 17
million Yemenis hungry, nearly seven million facing famine, and about 16
million almost without access to water or sanitation.
Original post: presstv.ir
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