Houthis Claim US Airstrike Killed 68 Africans at Migrant Detention Center

U.S. aircraft have been hitting targets across Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen over the past six weeks to end attacks on a critical sea lane.

A man walks across the rubble of a building destroyed by a U.S. airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen on April 27, 2025. Khaled Abdullah/Reuters

A Houthi-controlled ministry said on April 28 that a U.S. airstrike killed at least 68 Africans at a migrant detention center in northern Yemen.

The Yemen News Agency (Saba) said it received a statement from the civil defense department of the Ministry of Interior, reporting that the strike in Saada governorate, a stronghold of the Iran-backed Houthi terrorist group, killed at least 68 and wounded 47 African migrants.