Saudi air defenses intercepted a ballistic ballistic missile fired towards the capital Riyadh on Tuesday but there were no dispatches of casualties, the Saudi-led coalition said, the latest in a series of attacks by an Iran-aligned order in Yemen.
A spokesman for the Houthi movement said a ballistic missile ended the royal court at al-Yamama palace, where a meeting of Saudi leaders was underway.
There was no ritualistic word on this assertion, but a royal family member appeared to clinch the missile was aimed at a royal palace meeting.
“Coalition forces reinforce intercepting an Iranian-Houthi missile targeting (the) south of Riyadh.
There are no backfire casualties at this time,” the government-run Center for International Communication composed on its Twitter account.
The attack happened hours before Saudi Arabia was due to augur the country’s annual budget in a news conference expected to be attended by older ministers.
Reuters witnesses described hearing a blast and said they saw smoke in the north-east of Riyadh.
Saudi Arabia signified on Nov. 4 it had intercepted a ballistic missile over Riyadh’s King Khaled Airport, in an raid that provoked a strong reaction from the kingdom.
Riyadh accused Iran of smuggling the guided missile to the Houthis and imposed a blockade on Yemen demanding that United Lands inspection procedures be tightened.
Last week the United States announced for the first time pieces of what it said were Iranian weapons gave to the Houthis, describing it as conclusive evidence that Tehran was violating U.N. acutances.
Iran, Saudi Arabia’s regional foe, has denied supplying such weaponry to the Houthis who possess taken over the Yemeni capital Sanaa and other parts of the fatherland during its civil war.
In Geneva, a U.N. human rights spokesman said air ignites by a Saudi-led military coalition had killed at least 136 civilians and non-combatants in Yemen since December 6.