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RIYADH, (APP/AFP) – One Saudi soldier was killed and
three were wounded when a landmine exploded on the border with Yemen where Riyadh has led a 14-month military intervention, the interior ministry said late Monday.
The blast hit a border patrol in the southwestern province of Jazan,
the ministry said in a statement.
The border area has been largely calm since March, when local tribes
brokered a truce between Riyadh and Huthi rebels, who control most of it.
Saudi Arabia intervened in its impoverished southern neighbour in
March last year in support of President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi, who had fled into exile as the rebels threatened to overrun the country.
Despite its intervention, the rebels and their allies still control
many of Yemen’s most populous regions, including the central and northern highlands and the Red Sea coast.
A UN-sponsored ceasefire came into effect on April 12 paving the way
for peace talks which opened in Kuwait on April 21.
There have been repeated walkouts by the government delegation but
face-to-face negotiations resumed on Monday.