(Previous Incident Code: YEM167 )

A possible US drone strike killed three people in Yemen’s eastern Hadramout province on Saturday. The dead were reported as suspected AQAP members. An unnamed local official told Reuters: “the three armed men were travelling in a vehicle along a desert stretch between Yemen and Saudi Arabia’s border when the drone shot two rockets at them.

A Yemeni intelligence official said that the three alleged militants were killed instantly. A local military official told Xinhua that the vehicle was heading towards an alleged military training camp, where “scores of al Qaeda militants” were gathering.