A Saudi woman and a child were killed in the border region of Najran by a shell fired from Yemen, Civil Defense spokesman Lt. Col. Ali Bin Omeir Al-Shahrani said in a statement. The shell struck a house on Friday, killing the woman and the three-month-old child, he said. Dozens have been killed in cross-border fire since late March, when the Saudi-led coalition began bombing the Houthi rebels who seized Yemen's capital Sanaa last year with the help of military units loyal to ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh. The shelling continued as Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir held talks in Oman on Thursday on the conflicts in Syria and Yemen. Jubeir and his Omani counterpart Yussef Bin Alawi reviewed "the situation in Syria and Yemen and means of strengthening cooperation" among the six Arab states in the Gulf. The Saudi foreign minister told Oman's ONA news agency that "the view is one" between Saudi Arabia and Oman on "all the matters discussed today". Alawi, for his part, said the sultanate was "exerting diplomatic efforts to find a peaceful solution in Syria and Yemen". — Agencies
