The spokesman of the Yemeni armed forces indicated on Friday that the air defenses managed to shoot down two US-made reconnaissance drones over Marib and al-Jawf.
In two consecutive tweets, General Sarea noted that the Yemeni defenses shot down the two drones of MQ1 and ScanEagle while they both were carrying out hostile acts over the two above-mentioned provinces.
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
