Death toll from US strike on Yemeni wedding reaches 17
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Medea Benjamin (L), co-founder of the anti-war group CodePink, places flowers on mock graves of drone victims in Afghanistan, Pakistan and #Yemen, in front of the White House in Washington on November 15, 2013 ahead of the Global Drone Summit. (Photo: AFP - Nicholas Kamm)
A US drone strike on a wedding convoy in Yemen killed 17 people, mostly civilians, medical and security sources said Friday, adding grist to mounting criticism of the US drone war. “Some” of the dead in Thursday’s strike near the central town of Radaa were suspected militants, but the rest were all civilians with no connection to the jihadist network, a security official said. The death toll from the two-missile strike rose to 17 overnight, a medical source in Radaa told AFP. read (...)