The Yemeni army and the popular committees destroyed on Sunday a Saudi warship, the third vessel sinking in Yemen’s offshore waters in one month.

The Yemeni army and the popular committees destroyed on Sunday a Saudi warship, the third vessel sinking in Yemen's offshore waters in one month.

The Saudi warship was targeted by a rocket as it was in the waters close to the southwestern province of Taiz, Yemeni media quoted field sources as saying.

The warship had regularly been shelling Yemeni coastal villages, with rockets.

The local media noted that the vessel sand after it was set ablaze due to the Yemeni rocket.

It is the third Saudi warship to be targeted by the army and the committees this month.

On October 10, a Saudi warship was targeted and destroyed in the southwestern coast of Yemen, in the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait, which connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden.

On October 7, the Yemeni forces managed to destroy another Saudi vessel in the area, with reports saying that the sunken ship had repeatedly fired rockets on residential areas in Taiz.

Earlier on Sunday, the army, backed by the committees who are linked to Ansarullah revolutionaries, shot down a Saudi drone, also in Taiz.

Yemen has been since March 26 under brutal aggression by Saudi-led coalition. Thousands have been martyred and injured in the attack, with the vast majority of them are civilians.

Riyadh launched the attack on Yemen in a bid to restore power to fugitive president Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi who is a close ally to Saudi Arabia.

However, Yemeni army, backed by the committees has been responding to the aggression by targeting several Saudi border military posts and cleansing several areas across the country, especially the country’s south, from Hadi and al-Qaeda-linked militias.