SANAA- Yemeni army forces and allied fighters from Popular Committees havereportedly launched a locally designed and manufactured ballistic missiletoward an area deep inside Saudi Arabia in response to the Riyadh regime’sdevastating aerial bombardment campaign against its crisis-strickensouthern neighbor.
Brigadier Yahya al-Mahdi told Yemen’s Arabic-language al-Sahatsatellite television network that Yemeni soldiers and their allies hadfired a Burkan 2-H (Volcano H-2) missile towardsKing Khalid International Airport, located 35 kilometers (22 miles) northof the Saudi capital city of Riyadh, on Tuesday afternoon.
Mahdi added that the liquid propellant missile had hit its targetaccurately and left massive destruction at the airport.
There were no immediate comments from Saudi officials on the missile attack.
Fresh Saudi strikes claim 5 civilian lives in Yemen
Meanwhile, at least five civilians have lost their lives and two otherssustained injuries when Saudi fighter jets carried out a string ofairstrikes against an area in Yemen’s west-central province of Sana’a.Yemenis inspect damage at the site of a Saudi airstrike that hit a healthcenter on the outskirts of the northwestern Sa’ada province on January 22,2018. (Photo by AFP)
A local source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the casualtieshappened as Saudi warplanes launched four aerial assaults against abuilding in the Bait Maran area of Arhab district, Yemen’s Arabic-languageal-Masirah television network reported.
Earlier in the day, a child sustained serious injuries when aninternationally-banned cluster bomb, dropped earlier by Saudi militaryaircraft, went off in the Bani Moein area of Razih district in Yemen’smountainous northwestern province of Sa’ada.
Cluster bombs are banned under the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM),an international treaty that addresses the humanitarian consequences andunacceptable harm caused to civilians by cluster munitions through acategorical prohibition and a framework for action.