Saudi-led coalition downs 6 armed drones launched by Houthis
The spate of attacks comes a day after the Houthis claimed a missile attack on a Saudi oil facility in Jeddah.
The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen says its downed six armed drones fired by the Houthis on Friday, the latest in a surge of rebel attacks on the Gulf kingdom.
“Joint Coalition Forces have intercepted and destroyed this afternoon [Friday] a bomb-laden UAV launched systematically and deliberately by the terrorist Houthi militia to target civilians and civilian objects in Khamis Mushait,” coalition spokesman Col. Turki al-Malki said, referencing the southwestern Saudi city near the Yemen border.
In a statement carried by Saudi state news agency SPA, Malki added that the armed drone was the sixth thwarted by the coalition since Friday morning.
The Iran-aligned rebels have upped their attacks on neighboring Saudi Arabia in recent weeks, launching near-daily missiles and explosive drones across the border. The latest drone attacks come a day after the Houthis said they fired a winged Quds-2 missile at a Saudi oil plant in the Red Sea city of Jeddah.
