Riyadh — A missile fired from Yemen has struck a Saudi border city, killing three civilians, the Kingdom said, in yet another violation of a ceasefire aimed at helping peace talks.
Saturday’s attack on Najran left one Saudi citizen and two Indian workers dead, according to Civil Defense spokesman Lt. Col. Ali Al-Shahrani.
India’s Consul General in Jeddah B.S. Mubarak confirmed that two Indians from the southern state of Tamil Nadu were killed in the attack near a museum on the edge of Najran.
Another Indian was killed in shelling in the border region about six months ago, he said.
The latest incident comes after the Saudi-led coalition fighting Iran-backed rebels in Yemen announced that two ballistic missiles were fired Friday at the Kingdom from its neighbour.
One of the missiles was intercepted by Saudi air defenses, while the other struck a desert area east of Najran, the coalition said without reporting any casualties in that incident. The attack had prompted Saudi Arabia’s border guard to repeat a warning that residents should stay away from the frontier.
On Thursday the Civil Defense agency said a civilian had been wounded in the Jazan border region by shelling from Yemen.
The ceasefire has been repeatedly breached since it came into force as UN-sponsored talks opened Tuesday in Switzerland.
In Geneva, the UN announced that peace talks have ended.
