US: Mortar rounds that hit Yemeni school had targeted US Embassy in San'a

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
The US State Department says US officials have concluded that the US Embassy in Yemen was targeted by three mortar rounds that crashed into a nearby high school and killed a Yemeni security guard. The attack happened early Wednesday, and at the time US officials said they could not say for certain whether the real target was the US Embassy. Later Wednesday in Washington, the State Department said US Embassy officials in Yemen have now concluded that the attack was "directed against our embassy." US officials refused to comment further because the incident was under investigation. In Yemen, the Interior Ministry said the shells fired by unidentified attackers in the downtown Sawan district San'a, the capital, and also wounded five soldiers and 13 schoolgirls.