According to Human Rights Watch: "On August 30 at about 3:50 a.m., an airstrike hit Al-Sham Water Bottling Factory in the outskirts of Abs. The strike destroyed the factory and killed 14 workers, including three boys, who were nearing the end of their night shift, and wounded 11 more. Many of the dead and wounded, as well as the owner of the factory, were from the same family. Khaled Ibrahim Musaed, 34, a journalist who lives about 10 kilometers from the factory, said that coalition aircraft carried out more than a dozen strikes on a range of military and government installations that night in other parts of Hajja governorate, and the strike on the factory was the last. Two workers at the plant told Human Rights Watch that this was the only strike in the direct vicinity and that they knew of no military targets close to the area. Brig. Gen. Ahmed al-Assiri, the coalition’s military spokesman, told CNN that the plant had been used by the Houthis to make explosive devices and to train African migrants whom the Houthis had forced to take up arms. "There is no factory,” Assiri said. “We attacked a military camp in Hajja where they train mercenaries to send them to kill our soldiers.” All of the individuals Human Rights Watch interviewed said that plant was being used to bottle water and was not used for any military purposes. A group of international journalists traveled to the site two days after it was hit and reported that they could not find evidence of any military targets in the area. They said that they carefully examined the site, and took photos and videos of piles of scorched plastic bottles melted together from the heat of the explosion. They could not find any evidence that the factory was being used for military purposes. The attack on the water bottling factory was unlawful so long it was not being used for military purposes, such as to produce or store goods intended for military use." ^[+]