Saudi Arabia intercepted two ballistic missiles launched by Houthi rebels in Yemen on Sunday, a Saudi-led coalition spokesman has confirmed. The missiles were taken down over Riyadh.
The missile, which targeted southern Jizan city, left a Pakistani national wounded, the coalition said in a statement released by the official Saudi Press Agency.
The Iran-backed Houthi rebels claimed via their news outlet Al-Masirah that the missile had targeted a military camp in Jizan.
The militias repeatedly targeted Riyadh and other locations in Saudi Arabia with ballistic missiles during the ongoing conflict, which followed the 2015 Saudi-led invasion of Yemen, seeking to reinstate ousted Yemeni President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi. One of the latest attacks on Riyadh occurred in March, when the Houthis targeted King Khalid International Airport in the capital. One person was killed and several were injured during the incident.
Saudi Arabia last month tested a new siren system for the capital Riyadh and the oil-rich Eastern Province, in a sign of the increasing threat posed by the rebels’ arms.
Riyadh accuses its regional rival Tehran of supplying the Houthis with ballistic missiles, a charge Iran denies.
