Saudi-led force admits strike in Yemen's capital hit civilians
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RIYADH - A Saudi-led Arab coalition on Saturday conceded that an air raid in Yemen's capital a day earlier had resulted in civilian casualties, blaming the incident on an unspecified "technical error."
The early morning attack in the Faj Attan area of Sanaa hit a vacant building but caused an adjacent apartment block to collapse, killing at least 12 people, six of them children, residents have said.
Coalition spokesman Colonel Turki al-Maliki defended the strike as having "a legitimate military target," which he said was a Houthi command and control centre. He accused the fighters of using civilians as human shields.
"A technical error was the reason for the unintentional accident and the house in question was not directly targeted," he said a statement carried by Saudi state news agency SPA.
