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United Arab Emirates announces fighter jet ‘loss’ in Yemen Saudi state TV: 2 Emirati pilots killed in Yemen crash
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The United Arab Emirates says one of its warplanes taking part in the Saudi-led war in Yemen is missing. DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Saudi state television is reporting that two Emirati pilots were killed when their fighter jet suffered a “technical fault” and crashed in Yemen, where the two countries are part of a coalition battling Shiite rebels.
The Emirates’ military made the announcement in a single-sentence statement on the state-run WAM news agency on Monday. It made the announcement Monday on Twitter, after the state-run WAM news agency of the United Arab Emirates announced the “loss of a fighter aircraft.”
The statement described the event as the “loss of a fighter aircraft.” Officials in the UAE could not be immediately reached for comment.
Officials in the seven-emirate federation could not be immediately reached for comment. Last year, a Saudi-led coalition began a campaign of airstrikes targeting Shiite Houthi rebels, who control the Yemeni capital and other parts of the country.
Last year, a Saudi-led coalition began a campaign of airstrikes targeting Shiite rebels known as Houthis who had earlier taken the Yemeni capital, Sanaa. The war in the Arab world’s poorest nation has killed more than 6,000 people.
The war in the Arab world’s poorest nation has killed more than 6,000 people and created what the United Nations warns is a “humanitarian catastrophe,” with some 7.6 million people “severely food insecure” and 3.4 million children out of school.
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