The four injured, including a nine-year-old brother of the killed child, were rushed to a local hospital a civil defense spokesperson said.
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Since the Saudi invasion of Yemen early past year, it is not uncommon for the two sides to trade fire across the border, and Yemen’s relatively unsophisticated rocket technology means a lot of strikes in a general vicinity, but little previous to hit intended targets.
Cross-border attacks from Yemen have intensified since the suspension in early August of UN-brokered peace talks between the Shia Houthi rebels and their allies, and Yemen’s internationally-recognised government, which has the military support of a Saudi-led Arab coalition.
Ten people have been killed in Najran since August 16, when a single strike claimed seven lives.
For Houthi foes, the Saudi-backed exiled Yemeni government welcomed on Saturday the U.S. initiative, saying the government is prepared to deal positively with any peaceful initiatives resulting from the meeting in Jeddah that included the foreign secretaries of the U.S., Britain and Gulf states.
Yemen has been ravaged by civil war since late 2014, when Houthi rebels overran capital Sanaa and a number of other provinces, forcing President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi and his Saudi-backed government to temporarily flee to Riyadh. Kerry believes that a unity government will help end hostilities.
The fall of Aden prompted the Saudis and some of their allies to mount military operations against the Houthis, who they accuse of acting as Iranian proxies.
The Houthi fighters took state matters into their own hands in the wake of Hadi’s resignation and escape, which threw Yemen into a state of uncertainty and threatened a total security breakdown in the country, where an al-Qaeda affiliate is present.
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The Houthis still maintain control of Sanaa.
