Saudi Arabia condemns Houthi attack on mosque in Yemen
The Saudi Foreign Ministry has condemned on Monday
the Houthi attack on a mosque in Yemen’s Marib, which killed 79 and injured 81.
“The terrorist attack which targeted a place of
worship reflects the terrorist militia’s undervaluing of sanctuaries and Yemeni
blood,” the statement published by the Saudi Press Agency said.
“These ugly terrorist acts are an intentional
undercutting of a political solution [in Yemen],” the statement added.
The Iran-backed Houthi militia killed at least 79
soldiers and wounded 81 more in a missile and drone attack on a training camp
in Yemen on Saturday, in one of the deadliest attacks of the five-year-old
civil war.
The death toll increased to 116 and is expected to
rise, military and medical sources told AFP on Monday.
The bombing marks a further escalation of the proxy
war playing out in the Middle East, and comes two weeks after the US killed one
of Iran’s most powerful military leaders, Qassem Soleimani, in a drone attack
in Iraq.
Yemeni Minister of Information Moammar al-Eryani
said the attack was an act of revenge for Iran’s Qassem Soleimani’s killing,
calling on the UN to condemn the attack.
The United Nations said on Sunday that the attack
could derail a fragile political process that aims to calm the almost
five-year-old war.
