Nearly 70 inmates were killed and more than 50 others wounded in an US airstrike on Sa’ada governorate’s detention center in Yemen, according to reports.
Al-Masirah news network reported on Monday that the airstrikes targeted one of the detention centers designated for African migrants within the facility located in the city. The center held approximately 115 African inmates, but the number of casualties is still unclear.
Civil defense and rescue teams have been working since dawn to extinguish fires and rescue the victims, many of whom are still under rubble caused by the strikes.
Ambulance teams are also trying to recover and transport the wounded to the city’s overcrowded hospitals.
Initial footage shows a massacre with dozens of bodies and scattered body parts as rescue teams continue to retrieve bodies.
According to local authorities, one of the US missiles failed to explode near the detention center.
Yemen’s Interior Ministry condemned the US attack, saying that airstrike by American forces on the immigration detention center is a full-fledged war crime and a clear violation of all international humanitarian law.