Two Saudi regime policemen injured in Riyadh drive-by shooting

Two Saudi police officers have been injured in an attack in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, after the Persian Gulf kingdom beefed up security measures in the wake of its military aggression against neighboring Yemen.

“A security patrol was carrying out its duties in Riyadh when it came under fire from an unknown vehicle” in an attack that “left two policemen wounded,” a police spokesman said on the condition of anonymity.

He added that the two were admitted to hospital and “their health situation is stable,” adding that an investigation has been launched to determine the motive behind the act of violence.

The attack comes as Saudi Arabia’s Interior Minister Prince Muhammad bin Nayef bin Abdulaziz Al Saud on March 26 ordered security measures strengthened along borders and across the kingdom, including at oil facilities, as Riyadh pushes ahead with aerial attacks against Yemen.

Doctor Ali Sarieh, the director of medical emergencies at the Yemeni Health Ministry, told the official military news service, 26september, on Sunday that Saudi airstrikes on Yemen killed 35 people and wounded 88 others overnight.

He added that the Saudi military aircraft pounded areas in Sana’a Province, where Ansarullah revolutionaries are in charge of the embattled seat of government, as well as the northwestern and western provinces of Sa’ada and Hudaydah.

On March 26, the Al Saud regime unleashed deadly air raids against Yemen in an attempt to restore power to fugitive former Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh.

Hadi stepped down in January and refused to reconsider the decision despite calls by Ansarullah revolutionaries.

Gradually, as the Yemeni government failed to provide security and properly run the affairs of the country, the Ansarullah fighters started to take control of state matters to contain corruption and terror.

The fugitive president fled Aden to the Saudi capital city of Riyadh after Ansarullah revolutionaries advanced toward Aden, where he had sought to set up a rival power base, and where he withdrew his resignation.

The Houthis, however, say Hadi lost his legitimacy as president of the country after he escaped the capital in February.

Hadi left the 26th Arab League summit in Egypt for Saudi Arabia on Saturday, and his Foreign Minister Riyadh Yassin said he will not return to Aden “for now.”