Source: Xinhua| 2017-07-17 04:48:48|Editor: yan

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SANAA, July 16 (Xinhua) -- Yemen's Houthi rebels said they fired a barrage of artillery shells on their enemy military bases deep inside the Saudi border city of Jizan on Sunday, the rebels said in a statement in state Saba news agency, which is under their control.

Houthis said they targeted al-Miktaba and Kharshab bases, which are inside Jizan and under control of Saudi army.

"The shelling killed dozens of Saudi enemy soldiers and wounded other scores," Houthis said in the statement.

However, the state Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported that Sunday shelling from inside Yemen killed a Yemeni expatriate in Jizan.

"A shelling from inside Yemen carried out by Houthi rebels and their allied forces loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh killed a Yemeni expatriate in al-Harth district in Jizan," SPA quoted a statement by the Saudi civil defense as saying.

Houthi fighters and their allied Saleh's forces have been shelling Saudi border cities since a Saudi-led Arab military coalition forces intervened in the Yemeni conflict more than two years ago to dislodge Houthis in favour of Yemeni exiled but internationally recognized government.

The war pits the Shiite Houthi rebel movement against the Sunni Saudi-led military coalition, after the Houthis toppled Saudi-backed Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi in late 2014.

The legitimate government controls the south and some eastern parts, while the Houthi /Saleh alliance controls the other parts including the capital Sanaa.

The UN has sponsored peace talks between the warring factions for several times, but the factions failed to reach a deal to end the civil war, which has already killed more than 10,000 people, half of them civilians, and injured over 35,000 others.