Mahmoud Barakat
27 August 2016•Update: 28 August 2016
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia
A Saudi child was killed and four people were injured Saturday by a military projectile fired from war-torn Yemen into southern Saudi Arabia.
The Saudi civil defense agency said on Twitter the projectile struck Najran province from Yemeni territories.
“A child was killed and four people, including a child, were injured” in the attack, it added.
The Saudi authorities, however, did not identify the party behind the attack.
The Saudi-Yemeni borderline has been witnessing rising clashes between Saudi troops and Yemeni’s Shia Houthi militants.
Yemen has been ravaged by civil war since late 2014, when Houthi rebels overran capital Sanaa and a number of other provinces, forcing Hadi and his Saudi-backed government to temporarily flee to Riyadh.
In March of last year, Saudi Arabia and its Arab allies launched a massive military campaign in Yemen aimed at reversing Houthi military gains and restoring Hadi’s embattled government.
Backed by Saudi-led airstrikes, pro-Hadi forces have since managed to reclaim large swathes of the country’s south -- including provisional capital Aden -- but have failed to retake Sanaa and other strategic areas.
According to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), more than three million Yemenis have been displaced by the ongoing conflict in the Arab country.
*Reporting by Ahmed al-Masri; Writing by Mahmoud Barakat
