MOSCOW, February 1 (Sputnik) — An airstrike in Southern Somalia is believed to have killed several people in a building used by the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Shabab militia on Saturday, AFP reported.
"At least three missiles hit the military camp, a building housing foreign jihadists and a fighting vehicle," the region's governor Abdulkadir Mohamed Nur told the BBC Somali Service.
According to Somali news website Garowe Online, up to 60 al-Shabab fighters were killed at the site, which was being used as a training camp.
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A source from the al-Shabab militant group confirmed to AFP that a missile struck the building, but decline to provide further details on the attack.
Last December, al-Shabab intelligence chief, Tahlil Abdishakur, was killed in a US drone attack in the area of Saakow, about 320km (200 miles) west of Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, according to BBC.
Since 2011, Somali government, assisted by the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) has stepped up efforts to destroy al-Shabab. However, parts of Somalia are still under control of the militants.
