The Royal Saudi Air Defense Forces on Monday intercepted and destroyed two ballistic missiles launched by the Houthis from Saadah in north Yemen in the direction of civilian populated areas in the Saudi city of Jazan, said the spokesman for the Saudi-led Arab Coalition supporting Yemen’s government.

Government officials have told the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross Delegation in Aden, Carlos Batallas that the security authorities in Taiz are hunting for the killers of ICRC employee Hanna Lahoud in the city.

Prime Minister Ahmad Obeid bin-Daghr has ordered security and intelligence forces to speed up investigating and arresting terrorist elements and criminals, who assassinated preachers of mosques and bringing them to justice.

Vice President Lt. General Ali Mohsen received on Monday Governor of Baidha' Saleh al-Rassas and praised victories accomplished by the national army in the province.

The governor of Taiz Ameen Mahmoud has updated President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi on an ongoing campaign to crack down on criminals in the aftermath of murders of several civilians and most recently an employee of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

Deputy Foreign Minister, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdulmalik al-Mikhlafi has said the file of the kidnapped people and forcibly disappeared in Houthi detentions is on the top list of the government's priorities whether as humanitarian issue or in the framework of special efforts for reaching a political solution ending the coup and stopping the war.