A Saudi citizen has been killed and another injured near the Yemen border on Friday by shelling from forces loyal to former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh and Houthi rebels, Saudi civil defense forces said.
Saudi citizen killed in mosque after ending Friday Jumat prayers
The shelling occurred after Friday prayers as people were leaving a mosque in the southwestern Saudi border area of Jizan
Yemenis carry a body of a man killed in a bomb attack in a mosque in Sanaa, Yemen, Friday, March 20, 2015.
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Reuters reports that the shelling occurred after Friday prayers as people were leaving a mosque in the southwestern Saudi border area of Jizan and parts of the mosque were damaged, a statement on the official Saudi news agency SPA said.
It was gathered that an alliance of Gulf Arab nations has been bombing Houthi militia and army units loyal to former president Saleh that control much of Yemen since March 26 in what they say is an attempt to restore exiled President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi.
Saudi forces and the Houthis have been trading fire across the border since the Arab alliance began its military operations.
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On Saturday, the Houthis and their allies fired a Scud missile at Saudi Arabia that the kingdom said it shot down.
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