YEMEN Press Agency

Saudi occupation builds military air base in Yemen’s Socotra

SOCOTRA, May 21 (YPA) – The Saudi-led coalition forces established a military air base for the Saudi occupation forces on the island of Socotra, local sources revealed on Sunday.

The establishment came with the approval of what so-called legitimacy based in Riyadh, said the sources, adding that Bin Dagher’s authorities announced the ending of tensions in Socotra Island with the UAE occupation forces.

The sources confirmed that the Saudi occupation forces in Socotra began to set up a camp on the campus of “Socotra Airport,” pointing out that military mechanisms and equipment for the construction of the camp had arrived two days ago through the port of Socotra.

The Department of Engineering and Military Works of the Saudi Army is carrying out the construction of the air base, the sources said.

Saudi occupation is using all components of the Yemeni military air base at Socotra airport, the sources added.

Several Saudi Arabian military planes arrived in the past two days with dozens of military armored vehicles and setting up new military outposts.

E.M