Emirates flight carries out two landings in Hadramout
HADRAMOUT, Dec. 17 (YPA) – The UAE sent on Tuesday suspicious military shipments on board a civilian Boeing 737-476 aircraft belonging to the company ”Fanjet Express” to Al Rayyan International Airport in the city of Mukalla, the capital of Hadramout province in the east of the country.
Informed sources revealed that the plane, registered with the code “5Y-FQA”and known for its association with the UAE government agencies, took off from Al-Rif air base in the capital Abu Dhabi and landed at Al-Rayyan airport in Mukalla city of Hadramout loaded with what the sources described as foreign forces and ”suspicious shipments of weapons and military equipment”.
The sources explained that this flight was preceded by a previous flight of the same aircraft this morning, which doubles the volume of incoming shipments, forming the third flight of this type since last Friday, to Mukalla, which indicates a noticeable escalation in the pace of undeclared military logistics activity in the region.
Websites specialized in tracking flight movements showed the routes of departure from the UAE and landing in Mukalla. This indicates a significant escalation in the pace of undeclared military logistics activity in the region, after the UAE-funded Southern Transitional Council (STC)’s factions invaded Wadi Hadramout in early December, amid increasing military tensions with pro-Saudi forces.
On the other hand, Saudi Arabia demanded to go out the Emirati factions from Hadramout and return them to their barracks, directing them to deploy Saudi-funded Dera al-Waten factions in those areas, as the UAE continues to send armed reinforcements to Hadramout, as well as to complete its control over the coasts and ports of Mahra border with the Sultanate of Oman, east of Yemen.
It should be noted that the UAE closed Al Rayyan airport in Mukalla to civilian flights in mid-2016, and turned it into a joint military base with the US forces after taking control of gold mines in the directorates of the Hadramout coast under the pretext of confronting terrorist elements.
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