The spokesman for the Yemeni Armed Forces says the country’s army troops and fighters from allied Popular Committees have managed to stop a foreign oil tanker in the waters of the energy-rich southern Shabwah province, as it was trying to smuggle hundreds of thousands of fuel out of the impoverished Arab nation.
Faraan: Brigadier General Yahya Saree said in a statement on Thursday that the forces sent out several warning messages to the tanker ship, which had anchored in the port of Qena located in the Rudum district of the province, and did not allow the vessel to loot the Yemeni nation’s natural resources.
Saree went on to stress that the Yemeni Armed Forces stand committed to protecting the natural wealth of their oppressed nation. The remarks come a day after fighters from the popular Ansarullah resistance movement attempted to target the port of Qena by means of an unmanned aerial vehicle. The drone purportedly sought to hit an oil tanker while unloading its cargo at the port, according to local media.
The tanker was reportedly carrying thousands of tons of diesel, and successfully unloaded them after the aircraft was downed. Late last month, Yemeni Armed Forces carried out a warning strike against a Saudi oil tanker that attempted to steal direly-needed crude supplies from an oil terminal lying in the country’s Eastern Hadhramaut province. Saree reported the strike on October 21 after the Saudi ship tried to loot oil through the Dabba port, Yemen’s Arabic-language al-Masirah television network reported.
The Human Rights Office in Yemen’s southwestern province of Taiz slams the killing of an 8-year-old boy by a sniper with the Saudi-led coalition of aggressors in the province’s Mawiya district. The “basic warning strike” was carried out in efforts to prevent the continuation of looting Yemen’s oil wealth, which must rather be used towards paying Yemeni people’s salaries, the official added.
