SANA’A (Palestine Foundation Information Center) At least 70 civilians have been massacred in a US airstrike on a detention center for African migrants in the northwest of Yemen, al-Masirah satellite channel said on Monday.
Al-Masirah, which belongs to Yemen’s Ansarullah (Houthi) group, also reported that 47 other African migrants were injured, most of them critically, when the center in Saada province was bombed.
The channel posted graphic footage showing multiple bodies in the rubble of a destroyed building.
There was no immediate comment from the US army about its deadly strike, but it came hours after US central command claimed that its forces had hit more than 800 targets since president Donald Trump ordered the launch of intensive attacks against the Ansarullah group on 15 March.
The US central command also claimed that the strikes had “killed hundreds of Houthi fighters and numerous Houthi leaders.”
However, the armed forces in northern Yemen, which are controlled by the Ansarullah or Houthi group, affirmed the US strikes had killed dozens of civilians, and reported few casualties among its members.
