(Previous Incident Code: YEM193 )

A US drone strike on a vehicle in Shabwa reportedly killed three or five alleged members of AQAP.

The strike was reported by local officials, tribal sources and security officials.

It hit the same day as Saudi Arabia’s jets continued to strike Houthi positions. There were reported air raids outside Sanaa, in the second city of Aden, the northern city of Saada, and in Mareb province.

The UN said the ongoing conflict in Yemen had killed 1,037 civilians including 234 children and 134 women, adding the eight weeks of fighting had heavily damaged Yemeni infrastructure.

This drone attack could be a misreported Saudi strike. However it was a precision strike on a moving vehicle. This is a level of accuracy potentially beyond the fast jets of the Saudi air force. A botched Saudi attack in Aden on the same day demonstrates the potential for precision air strikes to go awry. It missed the Houthi fighters and managed to kill four members of the southern resistance movement.