Riyadh: One Pakistani national was killed and four wounded when a Saudi city near the Yemeni border came under renewed bombardment, the civil defense department said.
The latest fatality brings to 11 the death toll in Saudi Arabia since Houthi rebels in Yemen began firing rockets and mortar rounds over the border last week.
Civil defence spokesman Ali al-Shahrani told Saudi news channel Al-Ekhbariya that a school and a residential area in Najran came under fire at 7:00 am.
He did not specify the source of the bombardment but said one person was killed. Three foreigners and a child were wounded.
The Saudi-led coalition which has been bombing the Houthis in Yemen since March 26 said on Thursday that they had crossed a “red line” with their deadly cross-border fire.
The coalition has retaliated by declaring the whole of Saada province – a Houthi stronghold on the border – a military target and pounding it with air strikes and artillery fire.
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