TEHRAN (Iran News) – Ansarullah Houthi forces announced on Saturday that a Saudi military aircraft was shot down over Northern Yemen just a day after the movement had brought down a Saudi Apache helicopter. “Yemeni air defenses were able to shoot down a Chinese-made Wing Loong fighter reconnaissance aircraft in the Hiran district of Hajjah […]
TEHRAN (Iran News) – Ansarullah Houthi forces announced on Saturday that a Saudi military aircraft was shot down over Northern Yemen just a day after the movement had brought down a Saudi Apache helicopter.
“Yemeni air defenses were able to shoot down a Chinese-made Wing Loong fighter reconnaissance aircraft in the Hiran district of Hajjah province this evening during hostilities,” Spokesman for Yemeni Armed Forces Brigadier General Yahya Saree stated said in a post in Twitter.
He added that the operation of Saudi military aircraft shooting down was caught on tape and that footage will be published shortly.
Earlier in the day, Al-Masirah news outlet released footage that showed the Saudi Apache military helicopter shot down on Friday. Two crew members on board died.
“Yemen’s air defenses have managed to down a Saudi Apache helicopter with a surface-to-air missile using new technology which we will unveil in the near future,” Saree noted on Friday, stating, “It was shot down this morning in the Majaza area facing [Saudi Arabia’s] Asir while carrying out hostile operations.”
Saudi Arabia and a number of its regional allies have been engaged in a deadly campaign they launched against Yemen in March 2015, with the goal of bringing the government of former President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi back to power and crushing Ansarullah.
The US-based Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED), a nonprofit conflict-research organization, estimates that the war has claimed more than 100,000 lives ever since.
The United Nations says over 24 million Yemenis are in dire need of humanitarian aid, including 10 million suffering from extreme levels of hunger.
- source : FNA, Iran News
