A Bahraini F-16 jet taking part in the Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen crashed in southern Saudi Arabia on Wednesday.
The pilot survived after the plane suffered a technical fault and came down in the Jizan region, according to a coalition statement reported by the Saudi state news agency.
On Tuesday, Bahrain’s official news agency BNA reported that three of Bahraini servicemen were killed along Saudi Arabia’s southern border in an accident, without providing more details.
Bahrain is a member of the coalition that has been bombing the Iran-allied Houthi rebels in Yemen. Scores of ground forces from the UAE, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia have been killed since the start of the conflict.
The mostly Gulf Arab forces intervened in the civil war on March 26 after the Houthis forced the internationally recognised government into exile and appeared poised to seize the whole country.
The conflict that followed saw Gulf and pro-government ground forces claw back some strategic territory, but has left almost 6,000 people dead and plunged the already impoverished country into a humanitarian crisis.
Saudi Arabia and its allies view the Houthis as a proxy for Iranian power in the Arab world – something the Islamic Republic and the Houthis deny.
* Reuters
