Seven civilians dead as Yemen rocket hits Saudi

TIL Desk/World/Saudi Arabia-A rocket fired by Yemeni rebels killed seven civilians inside Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, the civil defence agency said. It was the highest reported number of civilian casualties in the kingdom’s south since a Saudi-led coalition intervened 17 months ago in Yemen.

“It killed four citizens and three residents,” the civil defence spokesman in Najran city said of the rocket strike. He said emergency personnel were called at 5:00 pm after a report of ‘a military rocket that had been fired from Yemen landing in Najran city’.

Social media video purportedly from the scene showed fires burning and the ground strewn with debris across a wide area. Two men lay apparently dead, one with blood pouring from beneath his head, beside a pickup truck.