Houthi projectile attack on Najran · 10 April 2015
Politics / Statement by an official source at the Ministry of Defense
سياسي / تصريح مصدر مسؤول بوزارة الدفاع (machine translation)
- Date
- 10 April 2015 · 21 Jumada al-Akhirah 1436 AH
- Place
- Najran
- Attacker
- Houthis
- Weapons
- Projectile
- Outcome
- Struck target
- Killed / injured
- 3 killed · 2 injured
- Victims
- Saudi: 3 killed · 2 injured
- Launched from
- Saada (assumed)
- Confirmation
- Officially confirmed
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Sources (4 reports in all)
- Politics / Statement by an official source at the Ministry of Defenseسياسي / تصريح مصدر مسؤول بوزارة الدفاع (machine translation)
“Riyadh 22 Jumada al-Akhirah 1436 AH corresponding to 11 April 2015 AD SPA A responsible source in the Ministry of Defense stated that on the evening of Friday 21 Jumada al-Akhirah 1436 AH, within the repeated confrontations with elements of the Houthi militia on the southern border, a…”
- Saudi Arabia: 500 Houthis killed on the border .. and 3 Saudi soldiers martyredالسعودية : 500 قتيل من الحوثيين على الحدود .. واستشهاد 3 جنود سعوديين (machine translation)
“The Saudi Ministry of Defense said in a statement through a responsible source that three soldiers were martyred and two were injured in confrontations on the border with Yemen in the Najran region, and this comes as a result of the Houthi militia firing a mortar shell at one of the border monitoring positions.…”
- Saudi forces inflict more than 500 dead on the Houthis in the border confrontations in Jazan and Najranالقوات السعودية تكبد الحوثيين أكثر من 500 قتيل في المواجهات الحدودية بجازان ونجران (machine translation)
“The Saudi Ministry of Defense said that 3 of its soldiers from the Land Forces at one of the border monitoring positions in the Najran region were "martyred" on the evening of the day before yesterday, while two were injured and "their condition is stable," as a result of a mortar shell fired by elements of the militias…”