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Media reports indicate that Kenyan war planes conducted an airstrike in Gadoon Dhowe (40km SW of Beled Xaawo) in the evening of 22/11. The airstrike was allegedly in retaliation for the killings of 28 Kenyan nationals who were killed on 21/11 in Kenya Somali border by al Shabaab fighters after they were picked up from a bus they were travelling with. The extent of the damage caused by the bombings is not known. Deputy President William Ruto of Kenya later suggested that over 100 members of al Shabaab were killed in the air strike. |
