Fire extinguished at Aramco refinery in Saudi Arabia's Jazan; Houthis claim attack
Yemen’s Houthi rebels said on Sunday they had struck an Aramco oil facility on Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea coast after the Gulf kingdom said it had extinguished a fire at the site. The group’s military spokesman Yahya Saree said the Houthis had “succeeded in targeting the Aramco refinery in Jazan with a drone”. He claimed the attack on the facility operated by Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil firm was…
On Sunday, Yemen's Houthi rebels claimed responsibility for an attack on an Aramco oil refinery in Jazan, located on Saudi Arabia's Red Sea coast. The group stated they utilized a drone to target the facility, which processes 400,000 barrels of crude oil daily. The incident occurred amid escalating regional tensions following a collapse in the truce between the Houthi rebels and the internationally recognized government in Yemen.
Saudi Arabia's military sources confirmed the Houthis had launched missile and drone attacks targeting "Saudi enemy" troops and installations near the Red Sea city of Mokha. While no casualties were reported among the Saudi military personnel, residents in Mokha reported hearing explosions from drones and air defenses. The Aramco refinery, which was previously targeted by the Houthis in July, was also the focus of the Sunday attack, with the industrial security firefighting teams successfully extinguishing a fire at dawn.
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