Riyadh: Saudi Arabia today intercepted a
ballistic missile over the kingdom's south near the border
with Yemen, state media reported, hours after Yemeni rebels
said they had launched an attack.
The Huthi rebels, locked in a war against Yemen's Saudi-
backed government, said they had fired a missile at the
kingdom's southwestern province of Najran in a statement
tweeted by their Al-Masirah television channel.
Saudi air defences intercepted the ballistic missile over
Najran, according to the kingdom's state-owned Al Ekhbariya
news channel.
A spokesman for the Saudi-led military alliance fighting
the Huthis in Yemen did not immediately respond to a request
for further details.
Saudi Arabia, which has been targeted by multiple rocket
attacks in recent weeks, has blamed its regional rival Iran
for arming the Shiite Huthis in the Yemen war.
The kingdom denounced the threat of "Iranian-manufactured
ballistic weapons" after it intercepted a ballistic missile
fired from Yemen over Riyadh in December.
No casualties have been reported in the attacks.
The Saudi-led coalition intervened in support of
President Abedrabbo Mansur Hadi's government in March 2015,
after the Huthis took over the capital Sanaa and much of the
rest of the country.
But despite the coalition's superior firepower, the
rebels still control the capital and much of the north.
More than 8,750 people have been killed since the
coalition intervened, according to the World Health
Organization.
