Yemeni Army claims firing ballistic missile at Riyadh International Airport
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SANAA- Yemeni army forces and allied fighters from Popular Committees have reportedly launched a locally designed and manufactured ballistic missile toward an area deep inside Saudi Arabia in response to the Riyadh regime’s devastating aerial bombardment campaign against its crisis-stricken southern neighbor.
Brigadier Yahya al-Mahdi told Yemen’s Arabic-language al-Sahat satellite television network that Yemeni soldiers and their allies had fired a Burkan 2-H (Volcano H-2) missile towards King Khalid International Airport, located 35 kilometers (22 miles) north of the Saudi capital city of Riyadh, on Tuesday afternoon.
Mahdi added that the liquid propellant missile had hit its target accurately 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 others sustained injuries when Saudi fighter jets carried out a string of airstrikes 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 health center 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 casualties happened as Saudi warplanes launched four aerial assaults against a building in the Bait Maran area of Arhab district, Yemen’s Arabic-language al-Masirah television network reported.
Earlier in the day, a child sustained serious injuries when an internationally-banned cluster bomb, dropped earlier by Saudi military aircraft, went off in the Bani Moein area of Razih district in Yemen’s mountainous northwestern province of Sa'ada.
Cluster bombs are banned under the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM), an international treaty that addresses the humanitarian consequences and unacceptable harm caused to civilians by cluster munitions through a categorical prohibition and a framework for action.
