US killer drone strikes Yemen's Marib Province
Iran Press TV
Thu Aug 8, 2013 8:37AM GMT
Six people have been killed in a US assassination drone strike in Yemen's western province of Marib.
The attack on Thursday brings to 13 the total number of people killed in US drone strikes since Wednesday.
According to witnesses, the US aircraft fired missiles at two vehicles.
The US strike is the sixth of such attacks to hit Yemen in less than two weeks.
On August 7, seven people were killed in a similar airstrike in the southern governorate of Shabwa.
Four people were also killed in the US air raids in Marib on August 6.
In April, the Yemeni National Organization for Defending Rights and Freedoms said the US drones had conducted more than 80 attacks in the country in 2012.
Washington claims the killer drones target militants, but the facts on the ground show that civilians are the main victims of the airstrikes.
Yemenis have held demonstrations on several occasions over the past months to condemn the United States for violating Yemen's sovereignty by the drone strikes.
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