Saudi media admits killing of 8 soldiers on border fronts

SANAA, Sept. 16 (YPA) – The Saudi forces command on Sunday officially announced that eight of its soldiers were killed by Yemeni army and popular committees fire, admitting some of its continued human and material losses on the border fronts.

“The eight Saudi soldiers were killed,” the official SPA news agency reported, without naming them and the sites of their deaths, referring only to the “southern border.”

The Saudi forces command usually refrains to announce the deaths of its officers and soldiers who have been killed in border fronts, and keep it secret, except in cases of emergency

In these cases, the Saudi forces command is forced to announce their deaths, and their relatives have reported lying dead in the battles of what they call “defending the kingdom’s southern border.”

In mid-February, the Saudi forces command was forced to announce that “12 soldiers were killed and 30 members of the King Abdul Aziz Brigade were wounded in Najran” in a Yemeni attack.

Despite the Saudi reservation, the Yemeni army’s military media and popular committees daily announce the deaths of Saudi officers and soldiers, with their photographs published.

E.M