The U.S.-backed, Saudi-led coalition waging an air campaign in Yemen took responsibility Saturday for strikes that killed more than 140 people and injured nearly 600 more last week. A Saudi investigation concluded the ceremony was "wrongly" hit after a source falsely "insisted that the location be targeted immediately [was] a legitimate military target."
The inquiry blames both "non-compliance with coalition rules of engagement" and "the issuing of incorrect information" for the devastating strike, which produced the single largest death toll in Yemen's grueling civil war.
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