Yemen: Houthi rebels claim to have downed US drone

Houthi rebels on Wednesday claimed to have downed a US MQ-9 Reaper drone with a surface-to-air missile in Yemen’s central Marib province.

“The air defence force of the Yemeni Armed Forces, with the help of God, have succeeded on the dawn of this day, Wednesday, in downing a U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drone while it was carrying out hostile missions in the airspace of Marib Governorate,” Houthi military spokesperson, Brigadier Yahya Saree said in a televised address.

Images analyzed by The Associated Press showed the MQ-9 on its belly in the barren desert, its tail assembly disconnected from the rest of its body.

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