ADEN, Yemen, July 22 (Xinhua) -- Yemen's Shiite Houthi group said on Saturday night it had fired a new long-range ballistic missile and struck oil refineries in Saudi Arabia's Yanbu.
The Houthi rebels, through their official satellite channel Al Masirah TV, said that their armed forces fired a ballistic missile into Aramco Oil Refineries in Yanbu, a port city on the Red Sea coast of western Saudi Arabia.
The Yemeni rebels claimed that the new ballistic missile Burkan-2H was used for the first time and successfully hit the refineries.
There was no immediate comment from the authorities in Saudi Arabia on the reports released by the Houthis.
Meanwhile, local residents told Xinhua that warplanes of the Saudi Arabia-led coalition struck the international airport in the western port city of Hodeida with eight strikes on Saturday night.
No immediate reports of casualties were reported.
Yemen's government, allied with a Saudi-led Arab military coalition, has for years been battling Iran-backed Shiite Houthi rebels for control of the impoverished country.
In March 2015, Saudi Arabia led a mostly Arab military coalition and imposed an air and sea blockade to prevent weapons from reaching Iranian-backed Houthis, who invaded capital Sanaa militarily and seized most northern Yemeni provinces.
Statistics showed that more than 10,000 people have been killed in Yemen's conflict, most of them civilians, since the Saudi-led coalition entered the conflict in 2015.
The country has also been hit by a deadly cholera outbreak and is on the edge of famine.
