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Yemen’s Houthi rebels have claimed responsibility for a loud explosion in Riyadh, saying they fired a long-range ballistic missile that travelled more than 800km over the border with Saudi Arabia.<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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\n\tA spokesman for the rebels told AL JAZEERA they launched a Burkan 2-H missile \u2015 a Scud-type missile with a range of more than 800km \u2014 towards Riyadh late on Saturday.<\/p>\n

\n\t“The capital cities of countries that continually shell us, targeting innocent civilians, will not be spared from our missiles,” the spokesman said.<\/p>\n

\n\tAL MASIRAH, a TV network run by the Houthi rebels, also claimed responsibility for the attack on Twitter.<\/p>\n

\n\tVideos on social media showed smoke rising from an area near Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe official Saudi SPA quoted Colonel Turki al-Maliki as saying that at exactly 8:07 p.m. local time (17:07 GMT), a ballistic missile was fired from Yemeni territory towards the kingdom.<\/p>\n

\n\tMaliki said Saudi forces used a surface-to-air Patriot missile to destroy the missile, which shattered into fragments in an uninhabited area east of the airport.<\/p>\n

\n\tHe added that there were no reported casualties.<\/p>\n

\n\tAL JAZEERA could not independently verify the reports.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn an interview with AL JAZEERA earlier this month, Mohammed Abdul Salam, a spokesman for the Houthi rebels, threatened to escalate operations on the Yemeni-Saudi border and target deep inside the Kingdom.<\/p>\n

\n\t“The Saudis started the war. Our response will continue and increase, whether it’s targeting deep inside Saudi Arabia, targeting military positions where Saudi jets fly from, or military bases inside Yemeni territory,” Abdul Salam said.<\/p>\n

\n\t“Abu Dhabi and others that target Yemen, are as far as we’re concerned, a fair military target. Any country that targets Yemen will be struck by our missiles.”<\/p>\n

\n\tThe war in Yemen, the region’s poorest country, started in 2014 after Houthi rebels seized control of the capital Sanaa and began pushing south towards the country’s third-biggest city, Aden.<\/p>\n

\n\tConcerned by the rise of the Houthi rebels, believed to be backed by regional rival Iran, Saudi Arabia and a coalition of Sunni Arab states launched an intervention in 2015 in the form of a massive air campaign aimed at reinstalling President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi’s government.<\/p>\n

\n\tSince then, more than 10,000 people have been killed and at least 40,000 wounded, mostly from Saudi-led air strikes.<\/p>\n

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