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Military projectile launched by Houthis lands in Jazan village

December 16, 2020
 A military projectile launched by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi militia fell in Jazan, southwestern Saudi Arabia, the Saudi Press Agency reported on Wednesday.
A military projectile launched by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi militia fell in Jazan, southwestern Saudi Arabia, the Saudi Press Agency reported on Wednesday.

Saudi Gazette report

JAZAN — A military projectile launched by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi militia fell in Jazan, southwestern Saudi Arabia, the Saudi Press Agency reported on Wednesday.

In a statement on Wednesday carried by SPA, the media spokesperson for the Civil Defense Directorate in Jazan region, Col. Mohammed bin Yahya Al-Ghamdi, said: “The directorate had received a report about the fall of a military projectile launched by the Iranian-backed Houthi militia from inside Yemeni territory toward one of the border villages in the Jazan region.”

The spokesman also said that the projectile fell into empty land and its fragments were scattered in different locations without causing any injuries or damages, adding that the procedures adopted in such cases were immediately implemented.


December 16, 2020
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