The spokesman of the Yemeni armed forces, General Yahya Sarea announced on Thursday that the Air Defenses shot down a U.S.-made spy plane RQ_20 belonging to the Saudi Air Force while cit was carrying out hostile missions in the airspace of the Jizan front.
“The operation was carried out with an appropriate weapon, and scenes of the wreckage will be broadcast in the coming hours.”
Yemen has been since March 2015 under a brutal aggression by Saudi-led coalition. Tens of thousands of Yemenis have been injured and martyred in Saudi-led strikes, with the vast majority of them are civilians.
The coalition has been also imposing a blockade on the impoverished country’s ports and airports as a part of his aggression which is aimed at restoring power to fugitive former president Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi.
Meanwhile, Yemen is home to the world’s largest humanitarian crisis, with at least 7 million people on the brink of famine and hundreds of thousands suffering from cholera.
Source: Al-Manar English Website
