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Eight Al Shabaab militants were allegedly killed by three US strikes near Mubaraak.
The AFRICOM press release said: “In coordination with the Federal Government of Somalia, U.S. Africa Command conducted three (3) airstrikes targeting al-Shabaab terrorists in the vicinity of Mubaraak, Somalia, Apr. 5.
The command’s initial assessment concluded these airstrikes killed eight (8) terrorists.
We currently assess no civilians were injured or killed as a result of these airstrikes.”
SONNA provided the same death toll but said only one strike was conducted: “On the 5th of April 2020,the Federal Government of Somalia, in partnership with the United
States Africa Command (AFRICOM), conducted an airstrike against Al-Shabaab militants in the vicinity of Mubarak, Somalia.
This precision airstrike killed eight (8) Al-Shabaab, terrorists.”
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Reports of the incident mention a strike in the vicinity of Mubarak (مبارك) village, for which the generic coordinates are: 1.9172773, 44.7731843. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.