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7 soldiers killed in missile attack in Yemen’s Marib
ABU DHABI, Nov 13, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – Seven Yemeni soldiers were killed in a
missile attack Wednesday in the central province of Marib held by the Saudi-
led coalition, a medic and military official said.
The strike on a Marib military base came after six people, among them four
civilians, were killed in an attack last week on another base in the Red Sea
coastal town of Mokha.
The uptick in violence follows weeks of relative calm in the war between
the internationally-recognised government — backed by the coalition — and
Iran-aligned Huthi rebels.
A military official, on condition of anonymity, said the Huthis carried out
Wednesday’s attack.
Seven soldiers, including two senior officers, were killed and 12 others
injured, he told AFP, in a casualty toll confirmed by a medic at Marib
hospital.
Tens of thousands of people, mostly civilians, have been killed since Saudi
Arabia and its allies intervened in the conflict to back the government
against the rebels in 2015.
The conflict, which the United Nations says has caused the world’s worst
humanitarian crisis, has pushed the country to the brink of famine.
In a glimmer of hope for ending the fighting, a Saudi official said last
week that Riyadh now has an “open channel” with the Huthis.
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