Yemen's Houthi rebels have attacked Saudi Arabia's oil facilities with drones, Houthi-run Al-Masirah news agency says
A Yemen armed forces spokesman was quoted by the agency as saying the Houthis successfully carried out a"large-scale" operation with 10 drones targeting Saudi Aramco oil facilities in Abqaiq and Khurais.The Saudi interior ministry said the drone attacks caused fires at two facilities of the state-owned oil company. In a statement posted on Twitter, the ministry said the fires were under control and that authorities are still investigating the incident.
Saudi Arabia replaces oil minister with Prince Abdulaziz 01:44 James Rogers, a drone and security expert and a visiting research fellow at the Department of International Security Studies at Yale University, said the United Nations has been investigating the drones, which have a range of 1,450 kilometers . He said the range means that Houthi forces can target sites in Saudi Arabia from their stronghold in Yemen."It is quite an impressive, yet worrying, technological feat," he said.
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