Al-shabaab leaders beleived dead after drone attack in Somalia.
At least two
senior commanders from the Islamist militant group Al-Shabaab have been killed
in a drone strike in south-west Somalia, BBC reports.
Missiles
fired from an unidentified military aircraft struck Al-Shabaab targets in
southern Somalia early on Thursday.
According to
traditional elders near Bardhere town in the southern Gedo region, at least two
missiles struck vehicles believed to be carrying commanders of the Somali-led
Al-Qaeda affiliate.
“We heard
two big explosions and the information we are getting indicates that vehicles
were targeted close to a Shebab military base,” said Abdiwahab Ali, an elder at
a village close to the scene of the attack.
“Village
residents are telling us a missile fired from an aircraft struck a vehicle and
a nearby military camp belonging to Shebab,” said Hassan Gesle, another elder.
Immediately
after the attack the mobile phone network in Bardhere was cut off, making it
impossible to reach Shebab commanders for comment.
There has
been no official confirmation from the al-Qaeda-linked group, but a source told
a BBC reporter that those killed were al-Shabab commanders.
The BBC‘s
Moalimu Mohamed in the capital, Mogadishu, says the telecommunications network
to Bardere has been cut off since the attack, but residents in the village
nearest the town have been contactable.
They said
that after the blasts, well-armed Al-Shabaab fighters rushed to the scene in
Bardere, near the Juba River about 460km (285 miles) west of Mogadishu, where
the dead men were found.
SOURCE: Nairobi News
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