Riyadh(April 05, 2018): Saudi air defense forces say they shot down a missile launched by Yemeni rebels at the southern Saudi border city of Jizan.Whereas the rebels say the attack was aimed at an Aramco oil facility. In a statement late Wednesday, the Saudi-led coalition fighting the rebels known as Houthis said the attack caused shrapnel that landed in residential neighborhoods. It said the rocket was fired from the rebels’ stronghold of Saada in northern Yemen.
The rebels’ television channel said the missile was aimed at oil tanks. The coalition accuses the rebels of being armed by Iran.
All #Saudi_Aramco plants and facilities, including our facilities in Jazan, are operating normally and safely
— aramco | أرامكو (@Saudi_Aramco) April 4, 2018
Aramco said on Twitter that all its “plants and facilities, including our facilities in Jazan,” were “operating normally and safely”.
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