The airplane carrying Governor Mirghani Salih was en route from the eastern city of Gedaref to the city of Galabat, in the same state, reported satellite TV Ashorooq, which is close to Sudan’s government, without identifying the officials on board, Anadolu Agency reported.

According to the same TV channel, the plane carrying the governor and a number of other officials crashed and burned up while trying to land at the airport.

Salih and other officials were reportedly killed, but there were attempts to rescue some other officials from the crash, according to the same source.

According to Saba news agency on Monday, the Saudi and Sudanese forces were killed as Yemeni forces targeted their positions near Tiwal border crossing in Jizan.

During the attack, large amounts of Saudi weaponry, including several tanks, were also destroyed.

The attack was carried out in retaliation for Riyadh’s relentless airstrikes on Yemeni civilians.

Yemen’s defenseless people have been under massive attacks by the coalition led by the Saudi regime for nearly over three years but Riyadh has reached none of its objectives in Yemen so far.

Since March 2015, Saudi Arabia and some of its Arab allies have been launching deadly airstrikes against the Houthi Ansarullah movement in an attempt to restore power to the fugitive former president Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh.

Nearly 14,000 Yemenis, including 5,000 women and children, have lost their lives in the deadly military campaign.