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Houthi armed drone attack thwarted by Saudi-led coalition

Riyadh - 'The bomb-laden unmanned aerial vehicle aimed to target civilians and civilian objects'

Published: Sun 7 Feb 2021, 8:26 AM

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The Saudi-led military coalition engaged in Yemen said it had intercepted and destroyed an armed drone on Sunday launched by the Iran-aligned Houthi movement towards southern Saudi Arabia.

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The bomb-laden unmanned aerial vehicle aimed to target "civilians and civilian objects", coalition spokesman Colonel Turki Al Malki said in a statement carried on Saudi state media.

The coalition intervened in Yemen in March 2015 against the Houthis after the group ousted the Saudi-backed government from power in the capital Sanaa.




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