Ambush kills groups of coalition militants in Bayda

BAYDA, Dec. 22 (YPA) – At least eight militants of the Saudi-led coalition were killed in an ambush in Yemen’s central province of Bayda, a military official told Yemen Press Agency.

According to the official, the Yemeni army’s engineering unit set up an ambush, which targeted a group of the militants at the moment they tried to advance towards the army’s positions in Natie district. The ambush killed eight militants and injured dozens of others.

On Thursday, the army forces launched an offensive on the militants’ sites in the same district, inflicting heavy losses on them.

E.M