JAZAN: Another rocket attack by Houthi militias from Yemen wounded three Saudis in the southern border region of Jazan on Monday, an official said.
Major Yahya bin Abdullah Al-Qahtani, spokesman of the Directorate of Civil Defense in Jazan, said the attack happened at about 7:40 a.m., hitting a house in the governorate of Samtah.
The attack followed another that targetted neighboring Al-Tuwal governorate on Sunday night. Al-Qahtani said a child and two women, including an Ethiopian maid, were wounded in Al-Tuwal when a projectile hit a house at about 9:25 p.m.
Houthis have rained rockets in Jazan and the border regions of Asir and Najran in the past weeks after peace talks brokered by Kuwait between the legitimate Yemen government of President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi and Houthis collapsed.
The Houthis have subsequently signed an unholy alliance with loyalists of former Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh to establish their own government in Sanaa, the Yemeni capital that the Iran-backed Houthis have seized from Hadi’s government in 2014.
The Houthi rampage has forced Saudi Arabia and a coalition of Arab states to send forces to restore the Hadi government, which had been recognized by the United Nations.
With the coalition’s backing, Hadi returned to Yemen and had been temporarily holding office in the southern port city of Aden.
Last week, US Secretary of State John Kerry has conducted talks with Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman and other Gulf leaders to help restart peace talks in Yemen.
