Yemen: Three killed when UAV shot down

Three people were killed Monday in Sanaa, the capital of Yemen, when they were hit by debris and fragments of an armed unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) of the military alliance led by Saudi Arabia, officials said. Iran, and medical sources.

The Houthi health minister said three other people were injured when the plane crashed in a shopping mall, according to a news agency affiliated with the Shiite rebels.

Three medical sources confirmed to Reuters that six people had been hit by the wreckage and that three of them had sustained injuries.

“Our air defenses shot down a Chinese-made CH4 reconnaissance aircraft of the Saudi Air Force with a surface-to-air missile,” Yahya Sharia, a Houthi military spokesman, said via Twitter.

A spokesman for the Riyadh-led military alliance, which intervened in the war in March 2015, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The bloody incident took place amid a truce between the warring parties, which expires on June 2 and the UN is seeking to extend it.

The war in Yemen, which broke out in 2014, has claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and caused one of the worst humanitarian tragedies in the world. Millions of Yemenis are at risk of starvation.

SOURCE: AMPE

Source: Capital

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