Two officers dead in Saudi recon chopper crash

The Houthis claim to have downed the helicopter in a southwestern region bordering Yemen Two Saudi Air Force officers died when an ​AH-6i reconnaissance helicopter crashed in southwestern Najran province, Saudi-led coalition spokesman Major General Turki al-Maliki has said. Yemen’s Houthi militants claim they shot it down.According to the Saudi authorities, the helicopter crashed because of a technical malfunction. Riyadh did not comment on the militant group’s claims.Separately, the Saudi General Directorate of Civil Defense reported on Sunday that six civilians were injured in a Houthi missile strike on the city of Najran in the same area. Three homes and three vehicles were damaged in the attack, it added.The militant group, known officially as the Ansar Allah movement, published a video on social networks purporting to show the moment of the strike against the helicopter. The black-and-white clip shows a glowing object being hit with a projectile, resulting in a major explosion. It is unclear whether the object in the video was a helicopter or whether the clip is related to Sunday’s incident. On Saturday, ‌a Houthi spokesman, Yahya Saree also claimed in a statement on X that th...