The Yemen rebel group launched attacks on Saudi Arabia on Friday, hitting an oil facility in Jiddah and other state institutions.
Smoke billows from an oil storage facility in Saudi Arabia's Red Sea coastal city of Jiddah on Friday.
Videos spread on social media of the attack on the Jiddah oil facility, showing massive black plumes of smoke rising into the sky, dotted with occasional exploding fireballs. State TV channel al-Ekhbariya released a video of fire damage at an electricity plant in the south of the country, of firefighters putting out fires and blackened husks of concrete.After the attacks the group’s leader, Abdel-Malek al-Houthi, gave a live address on a Houthi-aligned channel.
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