A Saudi soldier was killed and three others injured in a landmine explosion near the border with Yemen, Saudi state media say.
The four soldiers were on patrol on a designated road in the southwestern Jizan region alongside the Yemeni border when the landmine detonated on Monday morning, the Saudi Press Agency quoted an Interior Ministry spokesman as saying without providing further details.
Cross-border violence targeting Saudi soldiers has been common since Saudi Arabia began a massive military intervention in neighboring Yemen last March.
The incident took place as the warring sides in the Yemeni conflict held their first direct meeting after a week-long break on Monday.
The UN special envoy to Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, said on his Twitter that the face-to-face talks came after a delegation representing the embattled government of President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, accepted to return to the talks in Kuwait.
