A Saudi soldier was killed in a cross-border firefight with Yemeni troops, the interior ministry said Sunday.

A border post was attacked overnight by Popular Committees forces during which one soldier wounded in the exchange died before reaching hospital.

He was the latest of at least 111 Saudi soldiers to die in the country’s south since the kingdom launched its brutal war on Yemen in March 2015.

In Yemen itself, more than 7,000 people have been killed, mostly civilians, since March last year according to the United Nations.

Earlier on Sunday, a Yemeni military official said five Yemenis were killed in a coalition air raid in the southern Shabwa province.

Also in Shabwa, three armed tribesman were killed in an ambush by terrorists belonging to the Yemeni branch of Al-Qaeda.

Source: AFP