{"id":2886,"date":"2026-10-18T11:03:49","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T06:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2886"},"modified":"2026-10-18T11:03:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T06:03:49","slug":"two-officers-killed-in-saudi-helicopter-crash-in-najran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2886","title":{"rendered":"Two officers killed in Saudi helicopter crash in Najran"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Two officers were killed when a Saudi National Guard reconnaissance helicopter crashed in the southwestern Najran region due to a technical malfunction, the Saudi-led coalition said on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Coalition spokesman Maj-Gen. Turki Al Maliki said the AH-6i helicopter crashed inside Saudi territory near the border with Yemen.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement posted on X, Al-Maliki confirmed the deaths of the helicopter\u2019s two-officer crew and offered condolences to their families, praying for God\u2019s mercy upon the victims.<\/p>\n<p>The incident comes as Saudi Arabia remains on heightened alert amid renewed attacks by Yemen\u2019s Houthi group.<\/p>\n<p>The border region of Najran has previously been targeted in Houthi attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the Houthi group claimed that it had shot down a Saudi Apache military helicopter near the Najran region in southern Saudi Arabia while it was conducting operations against Houthi positions.<\/p>\n<p>The group\u2019s military spokesperson, Yahya Saree, made the claim in a statement carried by the Houthi-run version of Yemen\u2019s Saba news agency on Saturday, saying Houthi forces had targeted the helicopter as it carried out what he described as \u201chostile operations\u201d along the Saudi-Yemeni border.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi officials had not immediately commented on the claim.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes amid escalating hostilities in Yemen and continued Houthi attacks against Saudi Arabia since July.<\/p>\n<p>The attacks have reportedly targeted civilian aviation facilities and energy infrastructure within the Kingdom.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two officers were killed when a Saudi National Guard reconnaissance helicopter crashed in the southwestern Najran region due to a technical malfunction, the Saudi-led coalition said on Sunday. Coalition spokesman Maj-Gen. Turki Al Maliki said the AH-6i helicopter crashed inside Saudi territory near the border with Yemen. In a statement posted on X, Al-Maliki confirmed the deaths of the helicopter\u2019s two-officer crew and offered condolences to their families, praying for God\u2019s mercy upon the victims. The incident comes as Saudi Arabia remains on heightened alert amid renewed attacks by Yemen\u2019s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}