Article 46PG3 Shrapnel drone kills 6 at Yemen military parade

Shrapnel drone kills 6 at Yemen military parade

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Les images de l'explosion d'un drone pendant une parade militaire dans une base loyaliste du sud du #Yi(C)men. Six militaires ont i(C)ti(C) tui(C)s et 12 autres personnes, dont des officiers et des responsables locaux, blessi(C)es, selon un hipital local #AFP pic.twitter.com/qn4kEcVYrD

- Agence France-Presse (@afpfr) January 10, 2019

Video footage captures the moment when an explosive drone, piloted by Houthi rebels, exploded over a military parade in Yemen. It killed six soldiers and injured at least 20 more, including the army's chief of staff.

Tobias Schneider, a Research Fellow at the Global Public Policy Institute, identifies it as a Qasef-1 loaded with shrapnel.

"Very effective attack. Houthi drone tactics are fascinating. Commonly used to blind Saudi/Coalition radars to cover missile launches (tactic pioneered by Hezbollah vs Isreal), sometimes as impromptu cruise missile itself."

Indeed, the military death toll of 6 equals that of the 2018 cruise missile campaign launched by Trump against Syria.

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