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Officials said Monday that the drone strike was carried out over the weekend and dropped Hellfire missiles on a camp located about 120 miles (195 km) north of the Somali capital of Mogadishu.
“The fighters were there training and were training for a large-scale attack. We know they were going to be departing the camp and they posed an imminent threat to US and [African Union] forces,” Pentagon spokesman Captain Jeff Davis said.
“Initial assessments are that more than 150 terrorist fighters were eliminated,” he added.
A large number of militants were gathered in the location, “in formation” to conduct “some kind of ceremony” when the airstrike occurred, an official said.
Al-Shabaab, an Al-Qaeda affiliate, has been linked to a number of terrorist attacks in Somalia, and controlled large parts of the capital of Mogadishu from until they were forced out by African Union forces in 2011. The terror group remains devoted to toppling Somalia’s Western-backed regime.
RT
