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(Previous Incident Code: SOM093)
AFRICOM reported that two days previously it had “conducted an airstrike destroying an al-Shabaab vehicle-borne improvised explosive device near Jana Cabdalle, Somalia, on the afternoon of April 11.”
AFRICOM made no mention of civilian harm. Additionally, AFRICOM did not state whether any belligerents had been killed in this strike.
In a subsequent FOIA response obtained by journalist Joshua Eaton in May 2019, AFRICOM confirmed it had struck on this date what it says was an “al-Shabaab Vehicle Borne Improvised Exploding Device (VBIED)”, in the vicinity of Jana Cabdalle, Somalia.
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Reports of the incident mention that the strike took place in the vicinity of the village Jana Cabdalle, for which the coordinates are: 0.02819, 42.287022. Due to limited information and satellite imagery available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.