Local Editor
Yemen’s Ansarullah revolutionary forces fired a ballistic missile Thursday in retaliation for attacks by a Saudi-led coalition.
Al-Masirah television reported that a Scud, a powerful Cold War-era weapon, had been fired at a military base near the city of Khamees Mushait in the kingdom’s southwest.
The area is home to the King Khaled air base, the largest air force base in southern Saudi Arabia, the world’s top oil exporter, but there are no oil facilities in the vicinity. The television station said the target was hit. Residents in Yemen’s capital reported hearing a roar as what they said was a Scud was launched from near the city.
“The army and people’s committees at dawn today fired a ballistic missile in response to the continuation of the Saudi aggression in the commission of war crimes against the Yemeni people,” the source said.
The Scud had been launched at Saudi Arabia by Yemeni forces several times during the nearly seven-month-old Saudi aggression.
Source: Al-Ahed
