The Saudi interior ministry said the three were killed and seven border guards were wounded by the shelling in Dhahran Aljanoub, a governorate in the Saudi border region of Aseer, the official SPA news agency reported.
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Impoverished Yemen has been rocked by fighting between the Huthi rebels and Hadi loyalists, who have received air support from a Saudi-led Arab coalition.
Meanwhile, in the southern Yemeni port city of Aden, fighters loyal to the government in exile took more territory from the Houthis, expanding their control around the city.
Bahah, who is also prime minister of the internationally recognized government, was followed by several more officials, whose task will be to restore normality and public services to a city battered by four months of combat.
The scarcity of help funding, compounded by a months-long sea and air blockade imposed by the Saudi-led coalition, has left a big majority of Yemen’s 26 million individuals with shortages of meals, gasoline and different primary provides, O’Brien stated.
The resistance, an alliance of southern groups including secessionists seeking an independent south Yemen and army units loyal to Hadi, won full control of Houta town, capital of Lahej province north of Aden, in heavy clashes, the sources said.
A main government-allied militia, calling itself the Popular Resistance, said on Saturday its fighters were advancing on Zinjibar, the capital city of the southern province of Abyan.
In other violence Friday, Yemeni officials said two Al-Qaeda suicide auto bombers attacked a military base, killing at least six soldiers and wounding 30 others in the eastern valley of Sir in Yemen’s largest province, Hadramawt.
He said the coalition is acting on a “step by step” basis to reinstall Hadi back to power and welcomed investigations, with the approval of the Yemeni government, into allegations made by Human Rights Watch (HRW) that possible war crimes actions were committed.
Asseri said the Houthis ought to implement United Nations Security Council Resolution 2216, which calls for the Zaydi Shi’ite movement to withdraw from cities under their control, return seized arms and allow Hadi to return from his Riyadh exile.
The Houthis have rejected that resolution.
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Yemen depends on imports for most of its supplies, including food, medicine and fuel.
