Earlier, Baraa Shiban, Yemen-based project coordinator with the international human rights organization Reprieve, also offered details about the age of the youngest victim in a series of posts on Twitter.

And Yemeni journalist Hafez Albukari shared this photograph purportedly of the strike aftermath.

On Sunday, President Barack Obama defended his ongoing drone campaign in Yemen, saying: “It is not neat and it is not simple, but it is the best option that we have.” The Monday strike was the first since the U.S.-allied Yemeni President Abed Mansour Hadi and his cabinet were forced to resign by Houthi rebels, who had seized control of the capital Sana’a.

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism estimates that as many as 85 confirmed U.S. drone strikes in Yemen have killed up to 544 people since 2002. However, the group notes as many as one hundred additional drone strikes may have occurred during that time.

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