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Saudi Air Defenses intercept ballistic missile fired by Houthi militia

[19/05/2018 06:25]

RIYADH-SABA

Spokesperson of the Saudi-led Arab Coalition to restore legality in Yemen Colonel Turki Al-Maliki said that Saudi Air Defenses had intercepted Saturday evening a ballistic missile fired by Iran-backed Houthi putschist militia from Sa'ada province toward the territories of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Al-Maliki also noted that the Saudi Royal Air Defense Forces also detected one more ballistic missile fell down in a remote desert is not populated and no causalities reported.

Colonel al-Maliki noted that the two ballistic missiles were deliberately fired to target civil and residential areas in the city of Khamis Mushait.