Yemen’s Houthi rebels on Monday alleged a US airstrike hit a prison holding African migrants, killing at least 68 people and wounding 47 others. The US military had no immediate comment.

Corpses covered in dust and debris were scattered in the wreckage of a detention centre for African migrants in Yemen, after what Houthi-controlled television described on Monday as a U.S. airstrike that killed 68 people.

Yemen’s Houthi rebels alleged an American airstrike killed at least 68 people and injured scores more in a detention center holding African migrants in northern Yemen on Monday, one of the deadliest attacks in the six-week-long U.