SANAA, Nov. 10 (Xinhua) -- Yemen's Houthi group said Tuesday it had carried out four military operations involving ballistic missiles and drones against an airport, oil infrastructure and a financial center in Saudi Arabia, as well as positions of Saudi-linked forces inside Yemen, claiming the attacks caused fires, damage and casualties.
In a statement aired by Houthi-run al-Masirah TV, Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sarea said the first operation targeted King Khalid International Airport in the Saudi capital Riyadh and several pumping stations along the kingdom's East-West oil pipeline, claiming "direct hits" that caused fires and damage.
Another operation targeted facilities belonging to Saudi oil giant Aramco in Abqaiq, a major oil processing hub in the kingdom's Eastern Province, Sarea said.
The third struck Saudi-linked forces in Al-Madaribah and Ras al-Arah areas of Yemen's southern Lahj province, he added, claiming casualties but giving no figures.
The fourth targeted a financial center in Riyadh, Sarea said.
The Houthis said the operations were in retaliation for deadly Saudi airstrikes on a crowded market in Yemen's southwestern Taiz province on Nov. 6 that killed at least 30 people, and on residential areas in Bani Hushaysh district, Sanaa province, on Nov. 7 that killed at least 22.
The claims come amid intensifying fighting between the Houthis and government forces supported by the Saudi-led coalition, accompanied by Saudi airstrikes across Yemen and repeated Houthi missile and drone attacks on targets inside Saudi Arabia.
Yemen has been mired in conflict since late 2014, when the Houthis seized Sanaa and much of the country's north, prompting the Saudi-led coalition to intervene in 2015 in support of the internationally recognized government. ■
