Saudi Arabia announced two border guards have been killed and five others wounded by shellfire on the frontier with Yemen.

Saudi Arabia announced two border guards have been killed and five others wounded by shellfire on the frontier with Yemen.

The deaths occurred when "military missiles from Yemen" struck their position at Zahran South in the Asir border region on Wednesday, Riyadh's interior ministry said in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency.

Yemen has been since March 26 under brutal aggression by Saudi-US coalition.

Thousands of Yemenis have been martyred and injured in the attack, with the vast majority of them are civilians.

However, Yemeni army, backed by popular committees and tribal fighter has been responding to the Saudi aggression, with several border areas in the Saudi Arabia are under the fire of those fighters.