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Saudi general killed in clash near Yemen
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A SAUDI Arabian general has been killed in the south of the country near the border with Yemen, where he had been “defending the country,” the nation’s army said yesterday.
Brigadier General Ibrahim Hamzi, deputy commander of the 8th brigade in Jazan, died from his injuries after being taken to hospital, Saudi Arabia’s official news agency said, without giving the date or exact circumstances of the incident.
He is the second high-ranking Saudi military official to have been killed on the Yemen border over the weekend.
A colonel and another border guard were killed late on Friday in a gun battle after a landmine blast along the frontier with Yemen, according to the interior ministry.
Several other Saudi soldiers have been killed since March when the kingdom formed an Arab coalition to fight Shiite Huthi rebels in Yemen.
In June, a Saudi lieutenant colonel died in a landmine blast in Jazan, while another general was killed in cross-border fire in August.
Riyadh launched airstrikes against the Huthis to support the internationally backed government of Yemeni President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi, which was losing ground.
Saudi Arabia feared the Huthis would take over all of Yemen and move its neighbor into the orbit of the Sunni kingdom’s Shiite regional rival Iran. However, the rebels have lost territory since late July, when the coalition began deploying ground troops in support of local forces.
About 70 people have been killed in Saudi Arabia from border shelling and skirmishes since the coalition campaign began. Soldiers have accounted for most of the border casualties.
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