Riyadh: One person was killed, and two others were injured after debris from an intercepted and destroyed drone launched by the Houthi group fell in Taif, western Saudi Arabia, the Saudi Civil Defence said on Thursday.
A Civil Defence spokesperson said in a statement posted on social media platform X that Civil Defence teams in Taif responded after debris from the intercepted drone fell in the city.
The incident killed a Yemeni resident and injured a Saudi woman and a Pakistani resident, who is in critical condition, the spokesperson said, adding that a number of buildings and vehicles sustained material damage, Xinhua News Agency reported.
Earlier in the day, Saudi airstrikes hit several areas in northwestern and southwestern Yemen, killing at least one person, Houthi-run al-Masirah TV reported.
In the northwestern province of Hajjah, two airstrikes struck the city of Abs, killing one person and wounding another, according to al-Masirah. The strikes also destroyed four vehicles and damaged a house.
Further south, separate strikes targeted three telecommunications towers in Taiz province, the broadcaster reported.
There was no immediate comment from Saudi authorities on the reported strikes or casualties.
On Wednesday, the Houthi group said that it had shot down a Saudi armed reconnaissance drone in Yemen’s northeastern Marib province and intercepted Saudi warplanes over Yemen’s western coast.
Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Sarea said in a statement carried by Houthi-run al-Masirah TV on Wednesday evening (local time) that the group’s forces had “a short while ago shot down an armed reconnaissance drone belonging to the Saudi enemy while it was carrying out hostile operations over Marib province, using an appropriate weapon.”
In a related development, Sarea said the group’s forces at 6:40 p.m. local time intercepted two formations of Saudi F-15 fighter jets that had taken off from the Khamis Mushait air base in southwestern Saudi Arabia and entered the airspace over Mocha in Yemen’s western Taiz province.
(IANS)
