Houthis tried to target civilian site in Saudi Arabia’s Najran
Yemen’s Houthi militias attempted to hit a civilian
site in the Saudi border province of Najran with a bomb-laden drone, Arab
Coalition spokesman Colonel Turki al-Maliki said, warning that there would be a
“strong deterrent” to such attacks.
The state-run Saudi Press Agency quoted al-Maliki
describing the Houthis as the “terrorist militias of Iran.” He did not mention
any casualties.
The attack on Najran comes as Iran quadrupled its
uranium-enrichment production capacity amid tensions with the US over Tehran’s
atomic program, nuclear officials said Monday, just after President Donald
Trump and Iran’s foreign minister traded threats and taunts on Twitter.
Najran, 840 kilometers (525 miles) southwest of
Riyadh, is right on the Saudi border with Yemen and has repeatedly been
targeted by the Iranian-allied Houthis.
