| Description |
KDF-AMISOM airplanes conducted air strike against an al Shabaab position in Birt Dheer (11km SE of Garbahareey) in the afternoon of 09/01. Initial reports indicate that ten persons were killed and unspecified numbers of people were injured and taken to Bardheere for treatment. This number was raised to 57 in the following weeks. Further reports suggest that a car was destroyed and al Shabaab fighters fled to Buur-dhuubo (36km SE of Garbahareey). Among the dead include six foreign al Shabaab leaders. |
