Nine soldiers belong to Hadi’s forces are believed to have been killed following an air strike by the Saudi-led coalition in the country’s Marib province.
According to Xinhua, an anonymous military source disclosed that “warplanes of the Saudi-led Arab coalition mistakenly targeted a military position of the pro-government forces in Jafra area in the northern part of Marib province.”
The air strikes are said to have occurred during fighting between forces loyal to Saudi-backed, exiled President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi and those of the Houthi movement, which is allied with the majority of Yemen’s armed forces.
“Nearly nine soldiers were killed and ten others injured as a result of the Saudi-led airstrike that mistakenly missed its target and hit our forces,” the source added.
