Yemeni forces have staged a retaliatory missile attack on�a military convoy in a�border area located in Saudi Arabia�s extreme southwest, killing as many as 60 mercenaries, the�al-Masirah television reports.

The counterattack came on Friday when Saudi military vehicles were traversing a border passage in the Najran region, the television cited�a Yemeni army official as saying.

The channel, which aired the�footage of the incident, said the missile barrage had also injured a great number of the mercenaries and destroyed three of their US-made Abrams tanks and six armored vehicles.

Yemen�s military has been carrying out tit-for-tat attacks against the gatherings of Saudi mercenaries inside Yemen as well as targets in Saudi Arabia�s southwest in retaliation for Riyadh�s military campaign against the country.

On Monday, Yemeni army spokesman Sharaf Luqman told Lebanon�s al-Manar television that Yemeni forces were present �20 kilometers inside the Saudi soil.�

The war was launched in March 2015 to bring back to power a Saudi ally as Yemen�s president. More than 10,000 people have died in the war, according to the United Nations (UN).

In one of the deadliest attacks in Yemen, Saudi warplanes bombarded a funeral hall packed with mourners in Sana�a last Saturday, killing over 140 people and injuring at least 525 others.

On Saturday, Saudi jets pounded the Bani Hushaysh district in the west-central Yemeni province of Sana�a as well as the Sahar district in the northwestern Sa�ada Province several times.

The Saudi Interior Ministry also confirmed that a Saudi soldier had been killed�in the Jizan region�in the country�s remote southwest, the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported.

Citing a ministry spokesperson, SPA said the fatality had been caused a day earlier during confrontations between Saudi border guards and Yemeni forces in Jizan�s Da�er area. The official named the trooper as Khaled Ali Mohammad Assiri.

By Press TV