Monday, 21 September 2015

Second Indian killed in Houthi shelling in Saudi

An Indian has been killed and three others were injured in fresh mortar attacks in Saudi Arabia’s Jizan region by Houthi rebels, the second Indian to die in three days due to heavy shelling.
The incident occurred yesterday at Samta town in the region when Houthi rebels bombarded an area close to Samta General Hospital, Saudi Gazette reported yesterday.
Vishnu, who hailed from Kerala and worked with a cell phone shop in Samta, killed in the incident, it said.
Munir Ahmed, Saghir Ahmed and Waleed Ahmed, who belong to Jammu and Kashmir, have sustained injuries in the shelling and were recuperating at the hospital.
Besides the three Indians, two Egyptians and a Yemeni were also injured. An official termed yesterday’s shelling as the worst in two days. On Friday, an Indian was killed and two others were injured in the same region.

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