Shell kills Saudi soldier on Yemen border

RIYADH   :

A Saudi Arabian soldier has been killed in
shelling on the border with Yemen ,the
military said late Wednesday ,adding to a
rising toll in the kingdom's south over
the past week.

"He was hit by a projectile in the sector
of Jazan ' a Saudi border district,said a state-
ment from the Saudi -ed coalition which
has been bombing rebels  in Yemen for more
than four months in support of exiled President
Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi.

On Sunday a civilian died when a shell
from Yemen hit his house in Najran another
area along the Saudi border

And last Friday rocket fire from Yemen
killed three soldiers and a paramilitary
along the frontier in the deadliest such
incident for several weeks .

The cross -border barrages coincide with
advances since late July by ant- rebel fighters
who recaptured the southern city of Aden
from the Iran backed Huthi rebels.

On Tuesday they also took back the Al-
Anad airbase north of Aden,using heavy
armour supplies by the coalition after
hundreds of  Gulf Arab troops landed
in the port city to bolster the fightback
by the local forces opposed rebels groups

The Saudi soldier brings the number of people
killed in shelling and skirmishes along the
Saudi frontier with Yemen to at least 50
since the coalition campaign began on
March 26 most of the casualties have been
soldiers.

In Yemen,the United Nations says the war has
killed nearly 4,000 people ,half of them
civilian---AFP