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(Previous Incident Code: YEM247 )
US Central Command said in a press release published on October 4th that it had struck an al Qaeda target on September 29th in a remote area of Baydah province, killing one alleged member and injuring another. There are currently no known reports of civilian harm.
A subsequent Centcom release, published in late December, corrected the first statement, saying: “Originally, Centcom reported one death and one injured in the strike. It is now confirmed that the hospitalised terrorist later died of those injuries.”
Earlier reports from AFP and Reuters said that a drone strike had killed two senior members of al Qaeda’s Yemen branch in the same province. A government official reportedly told AFP they were killed while sitting under a tree.