Report: US attack killed 30 civilians in Yemen village

A Yemeni man walks through the rubble of a building destroyed by an air strike carried out by the Saudi coalition in Sanaa, Yemen on 5 September 2018 [Mohammed Huwais/AFP/Getty Images]

Some 30 Yemeni civilians were killed in error during a US Special Operations raid on the village of Yakla in the Yemeni province of Al-Bayda in January 2017, the BBC reported.

The BBC said its correspondent, Safa Al-Ahmad, traveled to Yemen to investigate the escalation of US attacks on Al-Qaeda targets in the country, explaining that “most of the strikes were carried out in secret”.

According to the site, US President Donald Trump approved the targeting of the village during his first days at the White House launching what became the first in a series of large-scale attacks as well as the first US counterterrorism operation in Yemen in years.

The BBC cited the village residents as saying that 30 people had been killed in the attack. A US army soldier was also killed during the attack while three others were wounded.

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