Press TV- Yemeni army troops, backed by allied fighters from Popular Committees, have fired a domestically-manufactured ballistic missile at a military base in Saudi Arabias southern border region of Najranin retaliation for the Saudiregimes military campaign against the war-ravaged country, Yemeni media report.
Yemens Arabic-languageal-Masirah television networkcitedan unnamed military official as sayingthat Nahouqa military base had been targeted with short-range Zelzal-2 (Earthquake-2) missile on Monday evening, adding that the projectile had hit the designated target with highprecision.
The report further said that gatheringsof Saudi forces at the base and behind it were also targeted with multiple artillery shells, adding that the attack killed and wounded an unspecified number of Saudi troopers and mercenaries.
A Saudi military vehicle was also destroyed in al-Sadis military base in the same region after Yemeni forces hit it with rockets, the report added.
Meanwhile, in a separate attack onYemen's western coastline, the Yemeni army troops and fighters from Houthi Ansarullah movement managed to kill and wound a number of Saudi mercenaries after hitting their gatherings with artillery shells. According to al-Masirah, the attack also inflicted damage to military hardware and vehicles of the Saudi forces.
Additionally on Monday, at least nine Saudi mercenaries were killed after their vehicle hita mine planted by Yemeni fighters in al-Ajasher desert in Yemens northern province of Jawf, al-Masirah further reported, citing an unnamed military source.
Al-Masirah also reported earlier in the day thatYemeni snipers had managed to kill at least eight Saudi mercenaries and wounded two others who were attempting to advance towards the gatherings of Yemeni forces in Asifera area in the southwestern province of Taizz.
The Saudi aggression against Yemen was launched in March 2015 in support of Yemens former Riyadh-friendly government and against the countrys Houthi Ansarullah movement, which has been running stateaffairs in the absence of an effective administration.
The offensive has, however, achieved neither of its goals despite the spending of billions of petrodollars and the enlisting of Saudi Arabia's regional and Western allies.
TheYemeni Ministry of Human Rightsannounced in astatementon March 25 that the Saudi-led war had left 600,000 civilians dead and injured during the past three years.
The United Nations says a record 22.2 million people are in need of food aid, including 8.4 million threatened by severe hunger. A high-ranking UN aid official recently warned against the catastrophic living conditions in Yemen, stating that there was a growing risk of famine and cholera there.