| Description |
Suspected Kenyan warplanes conducted airstrikes against al Shabaab bases near Golaa and Naxariis villages (18km and 30km NE of Bu'ale) as well as Sokela Village'(48km E of Bu'ale) in the afternoon of 08/02. The exact number of casualties are unknown but local residents have reported to have seen dead bodies of two farmers believed to have been killed by stray bullets from one of the targeted al Shabaab bases. They also confirmed a thick smoke hovering over the targeted bases. Al Shabaab warned residents not to visit the area and the villages along the eastern and the southern sides of the River Juba. |
