Yemeni president orders probe into US assassination drone strike

“President Hadi formed a special team to investigate the airstrike’s civilian deaths in Radda city” of the central province of al-Bayda, a presidential statement said on Tuesday.
 
On September 2, Yemeni police said at least 13 civilians, including two women and a child, were killed and three others injured in the US airstrike, just days after similar attacks claimed the lives of dozens of Yemenis in the south and east of the country.
 
    Anti-US sentiment is on the rise in Yemen, where many people have been killed in assassination drone strikes over the past few months.
 
 
On Monday, Yemenis blocked main roads in Radaa to protest the September 2 attack and demand an end to the US airstrikes.
 
Washington has been using its assassination drones in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen and Somalia and claims that it is targeting terrorists, but the attacks have mostly led to massive civilian deaths.
 
The UN has slammed the US terror drone attacks as targeted killings and says they pose a challenge to international law.
 
Reports, however, say that the CIA is seeking to expand its covert drone attacks in Yemen, despite the fact that the airstrikes mostly result in civilian casualties.