Riyadh: Saudi Arabia’s air defence forces intercepted a missile launched towards the kingdom’s southwestern Jizan region by Yemen’s Iran-backed Al Houthi movement, state media said on Tuesday.
The Al Houthi-run Al Masirah TV said earlier that a Badr 1 missile had targeted Jizan Economic City, where Saudi Aramco is building a 400,000-barrel-per-day refinery that is expected to become fully operational in 2019.
There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.
The Iran-aligned Al Houthis, who control Yemen’s capital Sana’a, have fired dozens of missiles into the kingdom in recent months. Most of the missiles have been intercepted by the Saudi military.
Location map of Jizan, SAudi Arabia
Image Credit: Saudi Aramco
