Yemen rebels accuse Saudi of launching major attack

Sanaa: Saudi forces were accused of launching a major cross-border ground and air attack Monday, after an alleged failed in incursion on Sunday.

“The Saudis began an attack along many fronts on the Yemeni border,” an Al Houthi statement read.

The Saudis are using “all types of ground and air weapons,” including tanks, artillery, rocket launchers, Apache helicopters and jet fighters, they said in a statement.

“The (Saudi) air force began bomb and missile attacks on various villages in the Malahidh, Shedah, Hidan and Razah areas” of northwest Yemen, they said in a separate statement.

The incursion into Yemen on Sunday allegedly suffered “heavy losses” according to the rebels’ statement.

Al Hayat, a Saudi-owned pan-Arab newspaper quoted Saudi’s southern command that it had captured about 965 Yemeni infiltrators, over two days.

The infiltrators were captured in Jebel al-Dukhan, Al-Doud and Al-Rumayh, the reports said.