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Warplanes of countries participating in a Saudi-led military campaign against Yemen's Shiite Houthi group on Monday continued to bomb Houthi positions, the Saudi army has said.
It said coalition warplanes had targeted Houthi convoys and supply lines.
"The Houthis still have a large number of arms depots," coalition spokesman Ahmed al-Asiri said.
"Work is being done to pinpoint these depots and also target them," he added during a daily press briefing at a military base in Saudi capital Riyadh.
The Saudi army revealed on Sunday that the Houthis had signed a deal with a regional country for the supply of large amounts of weapons.
It said that, in light of the deal, the country in question had agreed to send 14 planes full of arms to the Houthis each week.
On Monday, al-Asiri said there had been an attempt on Sunday to fire a ballistic missile from a suburb of Yemeni capital Sanaa, adding that the attempt had failed.
He added that the Houthis had also tried to fire mortar shells at a checkpoint on Yemen's shared border with Saudi Arabia.
"Border guards responded by targeting the source of fire," he asserted.
He noted that naval ships that planned to participate in a naval siege of Yemen's ports were already in place.
He said the ships would prevent the smuggling of persons and arms into or out of Yemen.
Several Arab states have joined the Saudi-led offensive, which kicked off last week with a string of airstrikes against Houthi positions in Yemen, including some in capital Sanaa.
Saudi Arabia said the strikes were in response to calls by Yemeni President ABD Rabbuh Mansour Hadi for military intervention to "save the people from the Houthi militias."
Fractious Yemen has been in turmoil since last September, when the Shiite militants overran capital Sanaa, from which they have sought to extend their influence to other parts of the country as well.
Some Gulf countries accuse Shiite Iran of supporting the Houthi insurgency.
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