A Yemeni fighter from the Popular Resistance Committees stands next to armoured vehicles in Marib province.
Sanaa - The rebels' Al Masirah television showed footage of a man who identified himself as Sergeant Ibrahim Hakmi of a Saudi brigade.
Published: Thu 17 Sep 2015, 1:36 PM
Updated: Thu 17 Sep 2015, 10:25 PM
Houthi rebels in Yemen claim to have captured several troops from Saudi Arabia, which is leading a coalition against the insurgents, parading one of the soldiers on television.
The rebels' Al Masirah television late on Wednesday showed footage of a man dressed in military fatigues who identified himself as Sergeant Ibrahim Hakmi of a Saudi brigade based in the Jazan border area.
The man said he was being held along with several other Saudi soldiers, but did not specify how many. He also did not say how, when or where he was allegedly captured.
Saudi Arabia's southwestern border region has been the scene of frequent clashes and cross-border shelling since the country launched an air campaign against the rebels in support of exiled President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi.
Backed by renegade troops loyal to ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh, the northern rebels seized Yemen's capital Sanaa a year ago and pushed Hadi into exile in March after advancing on his refuge in the southern city of Aden.
Pro-Hadi fighters, backed by troops freshly trained and armed by Saudi Arabia, ejected the rebels from Aden in July and have since recaptured four other southern provinces.
Loyalists are now set on gaining control of the Marib province east of Sanaa, in a bid to advance toward the rebel-held capital.
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