Riyadh, Jan. 5 (TNS): Saudi Arabia on Friday intercepted a ballistic missile near the border with Yemen, state media reported.
Yemeni rebels said they had launched an attack.
The Houthi 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 Houthis in Yemen did not immediately respond to a request for further details.
