A drone strike killed five suspected al Qaeda militants in Yemen late on Friday, a local official and a tribal source told a foreign news agency on Saturday.
Yemen is the main stronghold of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), one of the Islamist militant group’s most active wings. The United States acknowledges using drones to combat AQAP in Yemen but does not comment publicly on attacks.
The strike targeted a vehicle in the Mafraq al-Saeed area of the Shabwa province in southern Yemen, the sources said.
Of the five men killed in the vehicle, two were Saudis, the tribal source said. The source said they were buried on Saturday.
