Dozens of African migrants killed in US air strike on Yemen detention centre

A US air strike killed at least 68 African migrants in Yemen's northwestern province of Saada on Monday, in one of the deadliest attacks since Donald Trump entered the White House nearly 100 days ago.

The Yemeni Civil Defence said in a statement on Telegram that the strike, which injured around 47 people, struck a migrant detention centre that housed around 100 people.

Footage broadcast by the Houthi-aligned al-Masirah TV channel showed several dead bodies and wounded people at the site, as medical and rescue workers tended to the wounded.

There was no immediate comment from the US, but a statement issued by the US military's Central Command before the attack said Washington's "intense and sustained campaign" since 15 March had struck more than 800 targets and "killed hundreds of Houthi fighters and numerous Houthi leaders, including senior Houthi missile and UAV officials".

Yemen, the Arab world's poorest country, has been ravaged since 2014 by an ongoing conflict between Houthi rebels who control most of the north and Yemeni factions in the south who are backed by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

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