A spokesman for the Yemeni armed forces announced that the air defense of the Yemeni Army has managed to shoot down a US spy drone over Marib province, saying that a video of the operation would be released soon.
Yemeni Armed Forces Spokesman announced on Sunday that the US ScanEagle drone has been downed by the air defense of the Yemeni Army and popular committees have shot in Marib province.
The drone was shot down while carrying out hostile actions in the Al-Mashjah area of the city of “Sarawah” in Marib province, Brigadier General Yahya Sarea said in his Twitter account.
The operation has been filmed and it will be released soon, according to Sarea who added the Yemeni Armed Forces will spare no effort to fulfill its responsibility to protect Yemeni airspace and counter hostile moves.
Yemen has been since March 2015 under a brutal aggression by Saudi-led coalition. Tens of thousands of Yemenis have been injured and martyred in Saudi-led strikes, with the vast majority of them are civilians.
The coalition has been also imposing a blockade on the impoverished country’s ports and airports as a part of his aggression which is aimed at restoring power to fugitive former president Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi.
Meanwhile, Yemen is home to the world’s largest humanitarian crisis, with at least 7 million people on the brink of famine and hundreds of thousands suffering from cholera.
Source: Agencies
