Clashes, breaking an attack and dismantling naval missile heads and explosives in Hodeidah
English - Tuesday 16 June 2020 الساعة 07:31 pm
Hodeidah / Mocha, Newsyemen
The joint forces responded to an attack by the Houthi militia on its positions in the Al-Durahimi district, south of Hodeidah, after the militia's shelling of villages with artillery, on Monday evening, and resumed bombing on residential areas on Tuesday.
Military sources said that the joint forces engaged in violent clashes with militia elements of various types of heavy and medium weapons, and the militia incurred heavy losses in equipment and lives, while the rest of them escaped.
Local sources reported that the Houthi militia fired five 120-mm mortar shells at residential villages and citizen farms in the Al-Durahimi district.
The sources said that the Houthi shelling was followed by medium-caliber targeting operations, causing panic, fear and panic among civilians.
Villages and villages of citizens in the mountainous town of the district of Al-Tahta district, south of Al-Hodeidah, were attacked on Tuesday by heavy and medium weapons targeting from the Houthi militia.
Local sources reported that the Houthi militia shelled 82-mm mortars, residential villages and citizen farms in the mountain, and they also opened fire 12.7-caliber machine guns to snip people passing on the roads.
To this, the engineering teams of the joint forces were able to dismantle two missile warheads and dozens of mines and improvised explosive devices planted by the Houthi militias in the coastal district of Al-Qadaba of the Al-Durahimi district south of the city of Hodeidah.
A working source in the engineering forces of the joint forces confirmed the finding of two naval missile warheads and dozens of mines and packages of various shapes and sizes, while the engineering teams carried out comprehensive surveys of the coastal region, where they were able to find them, and they defused and dismantled them immediately.
