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(Previous Incident Code: YEMT206)
One local language social media source, @GawadSalah, claimed, on September 15th 2019, that six Emiratis were killed in an alleged AQAP camp in Shabwa by a US drone strike.
The source seemed to refer to six Emirati soldiers reported, on September 14th 2019, to have been killed in a road “collision” in southern Yemen. Other reports suggested that the six were killed in an armed clash with separatists, or even that they died in Libya. No other known sources assigned responsibility for the deaths to a US drone strike.
On October 4th 2019, a US Central Command spokesperson told New America that no strikes had been conducted in Yemen since June 24th 2019. It is, however, possible that an undeclared strike was conducted by the CIA, or was part of a clandestine US military action.
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Reports of the incident mention the governorate of Shabwa (شبوة), for which the generic coordinates are: 14.695997, 46.957239. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.
Reports of the incident mention the governorate of Shabwa (شبوة).
Imagery: Google Earth