An official Saudi source has denied allegations contained in a Human Rights Watch report about attacks on Ethiopian migrants crossing the Saudi Arabia-Yemeni border, Saudi Press Agency reported. HRW published a report on Monday claiming tborder troops in Saudi Arabia had used machine guns and mortars on unarmed Ethiopians trying to cross into the Kingdom from Yemen. The official source reiterated the Kingdom’s stance that onfirmed the claims were “unfounded and based on unreliable sources.”

The source also denounced the raising of false allegations by some organizations about the Kingdom and the “publication and promotion of politicized and misleading reports in the context of malicious media campaigns that are repeatedly raised for suspicious goals and objectives,” the SPA report added.

Credit: Independent News Pakistan (INP)