KSA Confesses: 3 Killed in Yemeni Border Shelling

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Three people were killed in a cross-border mortar bomb and rocket operation by Yemeni rebels on a city in southern Saudi Arabia, Riyadh's interior ministry said.

It did not specify if those killed were troops.

A Saudi-led aggression on anti-government rebels in neighboring Yemen on March 26, sparking sporadic border clashes with Saudi troops.

Fighting along the frontier has killed 12 soldiers and border guards.

"Three dead after Najran region attacked by mortar rounds and random Katyusha rockets from Yemen territory," the interior ministry said in a tweet sent late Tuesday.

The spokesman for the war coalition, Ahmed al-Assiri told Saudi state television that the Yemeni rebel fire targeted the Southern Saudi cities.

On Tuesday, the members of Yemeni tribes entered Saudi soil from Yemen's northwestern Sa'ada Province and took control of the military posts in Najran and Jazan regions.

Media reports added that several Saudi troops were detained by the Yemeni tribesmen as well.

The United Nations says at least 1,200 people have been martyred in Yemen since March 19.

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