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Yemen’s Houthi militias yesterday announced that they had captured two Saudi soldiers during an attack on the Mash’al military base in the Jizan region in the southwest of the Kingdom last week.
The group’s spokesman, Mohammad Abdul Salam said wrote on Twitter: “Saudi soldiers fell into the hands of the army [Houthi forces] and their popular committees during the battle of Jizan.”
“The prisoners joined their peers who their regime does not care about,” he added in reference to the Saudi authorities.
Houthi’s Al-Masirah television network broadcasted a video recording showing what it claimed were two Saudi soldiers captured by the group’s gunmen during the attack on the Saudi Mash’al military base in the Jizan region on Tuesday last week.
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The video recording identified the two Saudi soldiers as Ahmad Abdo Hassan Al-Sa’n from Bishah region in Jizan and Abdul-Aziz Saleh Hassan Al-Qarni from the Asir region. The soldiers appealed in the video to the Saudi government to release them from captivity, while one of them said that some Saudi prisoners have been in captivity for three years.
The Saudi government have made no comment on the incident.
Riyadh is leading a coalition of Arab states which began launching air strikes in Yemen in March 2015 to restore to power internationally backed President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, who was driven from the capital in 2014 by Houthi fighters and militias allied with former President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
Saleh severed ties with the Houthis on 2 December; he was killed by the group two days later.