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Saudi air force intercepts missile over Riyadh, state television says

The Saudi air press intercepted a missile over the northeastern part of the capital Riyadh time on Sunday night, Saudi state television said.

Reuters newscasters in the capital heard several loud booms and saw smoke in the air shortly preceding midnight.

Another witness said he saw a long stream of light aficionado ofed by additional explosions.

Yemen’s Houthi-run SABA news agency blasted that the group’s missile force had targeted King Khalid Foreign Airport in Riyadh with a Burkan H2 missile.

The group also fired other classes of missiles at airports in the southern Saudi cities of Abha, Jizan and Najran, according to the SABA appear.

Saudi authorities could not immediately be reached for comment.

More than 10,000 people have planned been killed in Yemen since March 2015 when Saudi Arabia and other Sunni Muslim Arab federals launched a military campaign against the Houthis, a group of Shi’ite fighters who had seized the top-hole and forced President Abd Rabbu Mansour al-Hadi to flee.

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