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Fresh Saudi air raids against Yemen claim 6 civilian lives

Saturday, 20 May 2017 3:17 PM [ Last Update: Saturday, 20 May 2017 5:21 PM ]

People inspect a house destroyed by a Saudi airstrike on the outskirts of Sana’a, Yemen, on February 16, 2017. (Photo by AP)

At least six civilians have been killed when Saudi military aircraft carried out two separate airstrikes on Yemen's western-central province of Sana'a and the southwestern province of Ta'izz.

Local sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said two people lost their lives and four others sustained injuries on Saturday when Saudi fighter jets bombarded a residential neighborhood in the village of Bayt Baws, Arabic-language al-Masirah satellite television network reported.

Later in the day, a Saudi combat drone fired missiles into al-Barh market in the Maqbanah district of Ta’izz Province, situated 260 kilometers south of the capital, Sana’a, leaving four civilians dead and two others injured.

A child was reportedly among those killed in the aerial assault.

Yemeni snipers shoot dead Saudi trooper

Meanwhile, Yemeni army soldiers, backed by fighters from allied Popular Committees, have shot dead a Saudi trooper in the kingdom’s southwestern border region of Asir in response to Riyadh’s deadly airstrikes on their country.

Yemeni forces and their allies targeted the Saudi soldier in the Nashmah military camp of the region on Saturday afternoon.

In this file photo, a Saudi soldier aims his machine gun from behind a sandbag barricade in the southwestern border region of Jizan, Saudi Arabia. (Photo by AP)

Saudi Arabia has been incessantly pounding Yemen since March 2015 in an attempt to reinstate former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, a staunch ally of Riyadh, and to undermine the Houthi Ansarullah movement. The Riyadh regime has, however, failed to reach its goals despite suffering great expense.

The military aggression has claimed the lives of more than 12,000 people, mostly civilians.

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