‘It was like a burnt house. Al-Shabaab fighters were collecting dead bodies’Islamist group confirms attack but says death toll of 150 is exaggeratedA local cattle herder has given the first eyewitness account of the US airstrike on an Islamist militant training camp in Somalia that killed scores of fighters.
Pentagon officials claimed that more than 150 members of the al-Shabaab militant group were killed in the surprise raid by planes and unmanned MQ-9 Reaper drones near Raso over the weekend. The al-Qaida linked group confirmed the airstrike but rejected the death toll as exaggerated.
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Source: theguardian.com