RIYADH: Fighting along Saudi Arabia’s border with Yemen has killed a soldier from the kingdom, the Saudi-led coalition spokesman said on Saturday.

The soldier is the seventh to die since coalition aircraft on March 26 began air strikes in Yemen to stop a southern advance by Iran-backed Huthi rebels.

Brigadier General Ahmed al-Assiri told reporters there was continuous fighting from Friday afternoon until late that night along the frontier in the southwestern Saudi region of Najran.

“One of our Saudi soldiers was killed,” Assiri said, adding that the coalition has carried out more than 2,000 aerial sorties during the three-week campaign.Three other Saudi soldiers and three members of the kingdom’s Border Guard force have also been killed in clashes along the southwestern frontier.

Published in Dawn, April 19th, 2015

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