US drone attack leaves three dead in southern Yemen

‘Three people have been killed in a US assassination drone strike in the southern Yemeni province of Shabwah.

A local official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the unmanned aerial vehicle fired a missile at a car in the provincial capital city of Ataq, located some 570 kilometers southeast of the capital, Sana’a, on Tuesday afternoon.

He added that all of the passengers of the vehicle were killed, claiming that they were suspected members of the al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).’

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