According to Mwatana for Human Rights: "Despite the statements issued by the Spokesman of the Arab Allied Forces –Brigadier General Ahmed Aseeri- that all precautionary measures were taken to avoid civilian casualties and to ensure the safety and security of all Yemenis, a sizable number of the coalition’ aerial attacks did target civilian areas and resulted in killing and injury of civilian, damage of homes, civil institutions and infrastructures. These violations may tantamount to war crimes in accordance with the International Humanitarian Law. [...] Four bombs dropped on the office of the security department in Al Shagadrah district and on a nearby grocery store, by fighter jets that belong to the Saudi-led Arab coalition forces, killed 18 civilians, including three children, and wounded six others, including a child, on 21 September, 2015. Al-Shagadrah district is located about 30 kilometers south-west of Hajja city. Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Mahdali (24 years old), a worker whose brother was killed in the attack, mentioned to Mwatana that he had heard an explosion that shook the area at 11:30 a.m. while people were shopping. Al-Mahdali said: “When I got out of my house, I found that the strike took place in the security department building. People gathered then around the area to see the effects of the bomb. After the first strike by nearly 40 minutes, another bomb was dropped on the grocery store located next to the security department building, only about five meters away from the building, then a third bomb landed in the yard of the security department building from the east side. A fourth bomb was dropped in front of the gate of the building, and the fifth bomb fell on the asphalt road in front of the Security Department building from the west side. These bombs hit innocent civilians, whether they were inside the grocery store, or who gathered to see the aftermath of the first bomb, or were shopping in nearby markets or were passing by in their cars in front of that area or were next to the petrol station which is about 10 meters from the security department building.” He continued: “When I went to the site of the bombing, the plane was still hovering over the region. I found my brother injured beside the station. He was wounded by various shrapnel which led to his death later. The fragments from the bomb were large and they reached several distant places in the village and caused major destruction to homes and shops near the place that was bombed.” Majid Ali Al-Mahdali (20 years old), a worker, who two of his cousins were killed in the attack and his uncle and two other cousins were wounded, was next to the petrol station when the first bomb exploded inside the security department building. He said: “People were returning from work when they heard the strike, then they gathered next to the security department building to watch the bomb. After that another bomb fell on Abdo Al-Mahdali grocery store, as a result, his brother Essam (25 years old) died along with another worker by the name Mazen Ali (18 years old). There were many people next to the grocery store. The third bomb dropped inside the department building and the fourth bomb fell on top of the department’s gate and the fifth in the asphalt road in front of the building. there were a lot of people preset next to the place where the bombing occurred because it’s a Monday and people were returning from the market so the fragments scattered all over them. As for the plane, its sound was strong hovering in the sky. The wounded were rushed to the hospitals, some of them are still there until today, and some of them died.” Witnesses denied the existence of military or armed groups within the Security Department building or near it. Ahmed Ali Al-Mahdali, 45 years old, whose son and brother were killed in the incident, said that his house is about 500 meters away from the security department building. He added speaking to Mwatana: “I was at home listening to the sound of the plane, and it was very close. At approximately 11:30 a.m., I heard the first strike and went out of my house to see that it was on the security department building. The bomb made a, 10 meters deep, hole in the ground seen by many residents of the village. After 40 minutes, four bombs fell in a raw on the area, but the sound of these bombs was stronger. I heard from some neighbors and people who saw the four strikes that the bombs explode in the air and then come down like rain on those areas. The fragments of the bombs reached a distance of almost two and half kilometer.”" ^[+]