Saudi troops killed in Yemen

SANAA, Nov. 3O (YPA) – Saudi-led coalition  on late Sunday admitted the killing of its troops  in Yemen. However Saudi media  had only reported the death of a lieutenant colonel  without specifying the circumstances and whereabouts of his death,

According to the Saudi media, the killing of the commander came shortly after Sanaa forces announced the bombing of the coalition operations room at Tadawin camp in Marib province on Saturday.

Spokesman of the Armed Forces Brigadier General Yahya Sare’e said that over 15 of Saudi soldiers were killed and wounded, including eight commanders and seven others wounded.

The sources revealed the identity of a number of Saudi officers who were killed in the strike, including high military commanders, among those killed were:

Colonel Saeed Hamdan al-Asmari

Colonel Abdullah Ayed Al-Bakmi

Major Mohammed Saad Al Mubarak

Captain Abdullah Saleh Al-Ghamdi

Captain Fahad Battah al-Shammari

Sergeant Khaled Aziz Al-Otaibi

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