Sanaa: Fifteen people on their way to a wedding in Yemen were killed in an air strike after their party was mistaken for an al-Qaeda convoy, local security officials said on Thursday.

The officials did not identify the plane in the strike in central al-Bayda province, but tribal and local media sources said that it was a drone.

An unmanned Predator drone at dusk Credit:AP

"An air strike missed its target and hit a wedding car convoy, 10 people were killed immediately and another five who were injured died after being admitted to the hospital," one security official said.

Five more people were injured, the officials said.