12 soldiers passed as Saudi helicopter goes down in Yemen
RIYADH: Twelve Saudi soldiers, including 4 officers, were killed on Tuesday when their helicopter went down in Yemen, a Arab bloc fighting Yemeni rebels pronounced in a statement.
The Saudi Black Hawk “fell during operations in a range of Marib” easterly of Sanaa, a bloc pronounced in a matter carried by SPA state news agency, but clarifying a reason.
“The causes of a occurrence are being investigated,” a matter added.
Coalition orator General Ahmed Assiri told AFP it was “too early” to criticism on a causes of a crash, that is one of a deadliest incidents involving bloc army in Yemen.
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The rebel-controlled Saba news group pronounced a helicopter crashed easterly of a provincial collateral Marib but giving serve details.
A Saudi-led bloc began atmosphere strikes over Yemen in Mar 2015 in support of President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi’s internationally recognized supervision in a quarrel opposite Iran-backed Huthi rebels.
Saudi Arabia and a United Arab Emirates, that play pivotal roles in a coalition, have suffered a alliance’s heaviest waste in Yemen, with dozens of soldiers killed.
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In Sep 2015, a insurgent barb strike on a bloc bottom in Marib killed 67 bloc soldiers, many of them Emiratis.
The United Nations says that some-more than 7,700 people have been killed given Mar 2015 in Yemen, that also faces a critical risk of fast this year.
Seven ceasefires brokered between supervision and insurgent army by a United Nations have failed, while UN-backed assent talks have regularly damaged down.
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