也门胡塞武装周五向亚丁总统府发射两枚导弹,一名警察官员告诉法新社,此前数小时沙特部队称已拦截该组织对海湾王国的袭击。
Yemen's Houthis targeted the presidential palace in Aden on Friday with two missiles, a police official told AFP, hours after Saudi forces said they had intercepted an attack by the group on the Gulf kingdom.
作为也门沙特支持且获国际承认政府所在地的亚丁,自也门沉寂的内战于7月重燃以来,已多次成为袭击目标。
Aden, the seat of Yemen's Saudi-backed and internationally recognised government, has been targeted repeatedly since Yemen's dormant civil war reignited in July.
两名目击者告诉法新社,事发后他们看到救护车驶入亚丁总统府,该总统府是一个由多座建筑组成的大型建筑群,包括政府和沙特领导的联军使用的设施。稍早前,居民和一名法新社记者称在该市听到两声巨响。
Two eyewitnesses told AFP they saw ambulances entering the palace in Aden, a large compound made up of several buildings including facilities used by government and Saudi-led coalition forces, after the incident. Shortly before, residents and an AFP journalist said they heard two blasts in the city.
控制北方首都萨那的胡塞武装,最近一次于周三袭击了亚丁机场外围,此前他们称曾于上周袭击一处海军基地和一个军营。
The Houthis, who control the capital Sanaa to the north, most recently struck the perimeter of Aden's airport on Wednesday after saying they had targeted a naval base and a military camp last week.
正在与伊朗支持的胡塞武装作战的联军周五称,已在沙特首都利雅得附近拦截并摧毁一架无人机,以及一枚向该国南部地区发射的导弹。
The coalition, which is fighting the Iran-backed Houthis, said on Friday it had intercepted and destroyed a drone near the Saudi capital of Riyadh, as well as a missile fired towards the country's southern region.
联军发言人图尔基·马利基在X平台发布的两条帖子中表示,部队已在利雅得省摧毁该无人机,以及“恐怖主义胡塞民兵向南部地区发射的一枚弹道导弹”。
周五早些时候,联军称已在麦加地区拦截并摧毁一架胡塞无人机,胡塞武装否认以伊斯兰教最圣城为目标。
马利基在X平台的一条帖子中写道:“恐怖主义胡塞民兵发射的一架无人机已在麦加地区被拦截并摧毁。”
In two posts on X, coalition spokesman Turki al-Malki said forces had destroyed the drone in Riyadh province as well as "a ballistic missile launched by the terrorist Houthi militia toward the southern region".Earlier on Friday, the coalition said it had intercepted and destroyed a Houthi drone in the Mecca region, with the group denying it targeted Islam's holiest city."A drone launched by the terrorist Houthi militia has been intercepted and destroyed in the Mecca region," Malki wrote in a post on X.Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree called the Saudi statement "a massive and egregious fabrication".Hours later, Malki reported another drone interception, this time over the Medina region, home to Islam's second holiest city.
胡塞武装军事发言人叶海亚·萨雷称沙特声明是“一个巨大而恶劣的捏造”。
Yemen's war began in 2014, with Saudi Arabia entering the conflict in support of the government the following year.A ceasefire in 2022 brought relative peace until this summer, when the conflict burst back into life.
数小时后,马利基报告又拦截一架无人机,此次是在麦地那地区上空,该地区拥有伊斯兰教第二圣城。也门战争始于2014年,沙特阿拉伯于次年介入冲突支持政府。2022年的停火带来相对和平,直到今夏,……冲突重燃战火。十多年的战争在世界最贫穷的国家之一造成了人道主义灾难,联合国估计该国人口为4200万。
More than a decade of warfare has created a humanitarian catastrophe in one of the world's poorest countries, which the UN estimates is home to 42 million people.