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Airwars Assessment
(Previous Incident Code: USYEM118a )
On September 7th 2012, a child was injured following the explosion of a live projectile from a previous airstrike allegedly by US forces in the city of Azzan, Shabwa governorate.
Eyewitnesses told Al-Masdar Online that “a shell exploded while a child was passing by one of the buildings that was bombed by drones to target members of Al Qaeda.” This was corroborated by local-language Twitter user @MaherALHDDAD who claimed that the explosive remnants originated from an US airstrike.
Geolocation Notes
Reports of the incident mention the city of Azzan (عزان), for which the generic coordinates are: 14.326170, 47.445905. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.