Two killed, 7 injured in Houthis attack in Saudi Arabia

RIYADH: Two people have been killed in Saudi Arabia in a projectile attack blamed on Yemen’s Houthi rebels.

Since 2014, Yemen has been racked by a civil war pitting Iran-backed Houthi rebels against the internationally recognised government, which is supported by the Saudi-led military coalition.

Saudi Arabia’s civil defence said on Saturday that two people, a Saudi and a Yemeni, were killed and seven others wounded in a projectile attack on Jazan, a southern region of the kingdom, bordering Yemen.

“A military projectile fell on a commercial store on the main street, resulting in two deaths,” it said in a statement, adding that seven others were wounded.

n Yemen, medics said three people were killed and six others were injured in the coalition air raids in Ajama, a town northwest of the rebel-held capital Sanaa.

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“Three civilians including a child and a woman were killed, and six others were wounded,” medics said.

The fatal cross-border attack marks an escalation in Yemen’s long-running civil war.

Saudi-led military coalition air raids targeted Sanaa earlier on Friday, hitting a military camp near the city centre, Saudi media reported.