RIYADH (Reuters) - Bombs fired from territory held by Yemen's Houthi militia into a Saudi Arabian border town killed five people on Wednesday, Saudi officials said, as the Iran-allied group stepped up an apparent retaliation for weeks of air strikes by a Saudi-led coalition.
Mortar shells and rockets fired into the town of Najran and a village in Jizan province on Tuesday claimed the first Saudi civilian casualties of the conflict, and prompted coalition jets to hit targets in northern Yemeni towns.
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