Country: Yemen Location: Radaa, Al Bayda Province Deaths: 12 Civilians: 12 Children: 3 Bureau Summary:US drones or jets killed 12 civilians in a botched attack on an alleged senior militant. Eleven died immediately and one subsequently of his injuries. The fourth airstrike in six days, the casualties including women and three children according to local sheikh Ahmed Ali and other locals said a 10-year-old girl and her 40-year-old mother were killed. Both were corroborated by a report compiled by three human rights groups, submitted to a US Senate subcommittee hearing in April 2013. 'The bodies were charred like coal. I could not recognize the faces,' said Ahmed al Sabooli the dead girl's 22-year-old brother. (Read more)
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