The Saudi Foreign Ministry on Tuesday denounced and condemned an attack that targeted Bahraini soldiers who were patrolling Saudi Arabia’s southern border.
“We expresses our deepest and sincerest condolences to the leadership and people of the sisterly state of Bahrain, and to the families of the heroic martyrs,” the ministry said in a statement published on platform “X”.
“The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia stands by the sisterly state of Bahrain, and renews its stance of rejection to the continued flow of weapons to the terrorist Houthi militia as well as calls to ban arms export to the Yemeni territories.”
Bahrain’s military command said that a drone attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels killed a Bahraini officer and soldier at the Saudi southern border early Monday.
The Houthis did not immediately acknowledge carrying out the attack as efforts to strike a peace deal between Riyadh and the rebels continue.
The military statement, carried by the state-run Bahrain News Agency, says “a number” of Bahraini soldiers were also wounded in the strike, without elaborating.
“This terrorist attack was carried out by the Houthis, who sent aircraft targeting the position of the Bahraini guards on the southern border of the kingdom of Saudi Arabia despite the halt of military operations between the warring sides in Yemen,” the statement said.