Saudi-led coalition destroys armed trucks near Yemen border

    The Saudi-led coalition destroyed a mobile platform to launch Scud missiles in the capital Sanaa and trucks loaded with arms and ammunitions near the Saudi border, Al Arabiya News Channel reported Saturday. Raids were also launched on Sanaa, and other provinces such as Saada and al-Hudayda including two military camps. In the Red Sea port city of Taiz, resistance sources said dozens of the Iran-backed Houthi militias were wounded in confrontation in a number of neighborhoods. Civilians were also killed after random shelling by the insurgents. In Friday, Eight people were wounded after a missile launched from Yemen hit their house in Samtah Governorate. The Jazan Civil Defense spokesman Capt. Raed Al-Qahtani said the missile injured eight people, including a woman. The Saudi Air Force scrambled to locate the source of the missile and targeted the launch site. Investigations showed Houthi rebels are forcing young boys to launch missile across the border. In another development earlier this week, UN Deputy Secretary General Jan Eliasson said on Thursday he hoped UN-backed peace talks to end the conflict in Yemen could start by the end of October. Eliasson, speaking to a Geneva news conference after talks in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Iran, called for both Houthi fighters and the exiled Yemen government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi to attend the talks without pre-conditions. “We have been disappointed before, Geneva talks started but not much came out of it,” he added. Eliasson, noting that a UN verification mechanism to inspect commercial ships heading to Yemen was in place, said the United Nations was in talks on ending the Saudi-led blockade of Yemen and opening more ports in Yemen to allow in fuel and other supplies.