The Iranian viewpoint from Fars News Agengcy:
TEHRAN (FNA)- An air strike by a US Unmanned Aerial Vehicle killed 8 people in Eastern Yemen.
The victims were on board a vehicle on their way from the Eastern province of Shabwa to Marib when a US drone fired a missile targeting their vehicle, a report by AFP said.
The US military uses assassination drones in several Muslim countries, including Yemen, Somalia, and Pakistan.
The drone strikes fuel widespread anti-American resentment.
A majority of these attacks have been carried out by CIA operatives and US Special Forces command, operating from a base in nearby Dijbouti.
The Indian viewpoint from The Times of India:
Yemen air force, US drone kill 24 al-Qaida suspects
ADEN: Air strikes have killed 24 al-Qaida suspects in their strongholds in the country’s south and east, the defence ministry and a tribal chief said on Sunday.
A Yemeni air raid late on Saturday killed “16 terrorists belonging to al-Qaida network in Kud near Zinjibar,” the extremists’ stronghold in the south, the defence ministry news website 26sep.net reported.
Meanwhile, a tribal chief told AFP a US dronekilled eight Al-Qaeda suspects when it fired a missile at their vehicle in the eastern province of Shabwa on Saturday, a tribal chief told AFP.
The Yemen viewpoint from The Yemen Times:
ONE CIVILIAN KILLED BY US DRONE STRIKE IN SHABWA
SHABWA, April 1 — One Yemeni civilian was killed and six others were injured in a US drone strike at 4pm on Friday in Azzan of Shabwa governorate, east Yemen, eyewitnesses told the Yemen Times.
The drone fired two missiles at a Hyundai vehicle thought to belong to militants with connections with Al-Qaeda. Locals who hurried to the scene of incident found the torn bodies of seven people scattered over the road.
Saleh Ali Ba Zyad, Saleh Abdulfatha Hamid, Abdullah Mohamed Hamid, Hamza Khaled Ba Zayad, Ali Hassan and another unidentified man were wounded during the strike after shrapnel showered the neighboring area.
Mohamed Saleh Al-Suna, 55 from Al-Hawta city in Shabwa died from injuries sustained from shrapnel in the strike.
Local security sources said that the strike attempted to target the leader of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Naser Al-Wahishi.
The United States media’s viewpoint:
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