Saudi border guard killed by cross-border fire from Yemen
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Saudi authorities say a border guard has been killed by incoming fire from war-ravaged Yemen.
The Interior Ministry announced the guard's death on Monday morning. It said the soldier died on Sunday night when a cross-border shell landed near him in Jazan, a southern province bordering Yemen.
A Saudi-led coalition launched an air campaign against the Shiite rebels known as Houthis in Yemen in March 2015. Since then, more than 5,800 people have been killed.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The United Nations says more than 80 percent of Yemenis are in dire need of food, water and other aid as a result of the conflict in the Arab world's poorest country.