2 killed as Yemeni forces target Saudi-backed militants in Shabwah attack

Press TV reported local media as saying that Yemeni military units struck members of the Saudi-sponsored Shabwah Defence Forces in the Bayhan district of southeastern Shabwah province on Monday, inflicting significant casualties.

The strikes followed fresh drone attacks by Yemeni army forces on the port city of Mokha in the southwestern province of Ta'izz.

Earlier on Sunday, at least seven people, including three civilians, were killed and 30 others injured after Yemen's Al-Mukha city and its port came under a missile and drone attack from Houthi rebel groups, according to the Yemeni government military.

In a statement issued on Monday, the official spokesperson of the Yemeni government's military, Colonel Majid Abdullah Al-Nuzaili, said that the attack targeted several locations in and around Al-Mukha, including civilian infrastructure, residential facilities for employees, offices, power-generation stations and military positions, the statement said.

He stated that four members of the armed forces and three civilians were killed in the attack, while 30 people were injured, the majority of whom were civilians.

Most of those injured were discharged after receiving medical treatment, the spokesperson added.

"The attack targeted civilian infrastructure, employee residences and offices, power generation stations, and civilian sites within the city, in addition to military sites, in flagrant violation of international humanitarian law and its rules," the statement read.

"The terrorist attack has so far resulted in the martyrdom of four members of the armed forces and three civilians and the injury of 30 others, the majority of whom are civilians, most of whom have been discharged after receiving treatment," it added.

The government's military also added that its air-defence units deployed in Al-Mukha intercepted and destroyed 11 drones involved in the attack. (ANI)