Yemen Army Targets Pro-Saudi Militants with Homegrown Missile
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Yemen’s army and Popular Committees fired a homegrown ballistic missile at the position of Saudi-backed militants in the southeastern province of Maareb, sources said.
The missile command of the Yemeni army fired a homegrown ballistic missile dubbed “Qaher M2” at mercenaries of the fugitive former president Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi at al-Rovayk military base in Yemen's southeastern province of Maareb, a military source said.
The Qaher M2 missile which was fired on Tuesday in retaliation for the continued massacre of civilians by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen, accurately hit the enemy targets, the report added.
The attack came as at least 50 people, including women and children, were killed and injured in fresh Saudi-led coalition airstrikes on a village in Yemen's northwest province of Hajjah on Tuesday, a provincial security official and medics said.
The airstrikes targeted Harran village, which is located about 30km south of battlefronts of Medi desert and Haradh border crossing near the southern Saudi borders, Xinhua reported.
Medics said coalition war planes continued flying over the area and hindered the rescue operations.
Yemen’s defenseless people have been under massive attacks by the coalition for more than two years but Riyadh has reached none of its objectives in Yemen so far.
Since March 2015, Saudi Arabia and some of its Arab allies have been carrying out deadly airstrikes against the Houthi Ansarullah movement in an attempt to restore power to fugitive former President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh.
Over 12,000 Yemenis, including thousands of women and children, have lost their lives in the deadly military campaign.
