Saudi general killed on Yemen border
Riyadh
A Saudi general has been killed in the south of the country near the border with Yemen, where he had been "defending the country", the army announced Sunday.
Brigadier General Ibrahim Hamzi, deputy commander of the 8th brigade in Jazan, died from his injuries after being taken to hospital,Saudi Arabia's official news agency said, without giving the date or exact circumstances of the incident.
He is the second high-ranking Saudi military official to have been announced killed on the Yemen border this weekend.
A colonel and another border guard were killed late Friday in a gun battle after a landmine blast along the frontier with Yemen, according to the interior ministry.
Several other Saudi soldiers have also been killed since March when the kingdom formed an Arab coalition to fight Shia Huthi rebels in Yemen.
Around 70 people have been killed in Saudi Arabia from border shelling and skirmishes since the coalition campaign began. Soldiers have accounted for most of the border casualties.
The United Nations says nearly 4,900 people, including a vast number of civilians, have been killed in Yemen since late March.
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