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(Previous Incident Code: SOM105)
In a US strike in Mubaraak, two al Shabaab militants were killed along with a combatant with US partner forces, a US statement asserted the following day. Members of al Shabaab and the partner forces were also left wounded.
US forces carried out a strike during a Somali partner forces-led operation against al Shabaab in the central Somali village of Mubaraak, west of the capital Mogadishu, Africa Command said in a press release:
“The US air strike was conducted against an enemy fighting position in self-defense after US and partner forces came under attack,” the press release stated. “We currently assess two terrorists were killed and one terrorist was wounded in the strike.”
AFRICOM said that it found no civilian casualties. During the operation however, one member of a partner force was killed and two others injured.
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Reports of the incident mention that the strike took place in the village of Mubaraak (مبارك), for which the coordinates are: 1.9172773, 44.7731843. Due to limited information and satellite imagery available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.