At least 21 civilians, among them women and children were killed on Monday night by an airstrike on their village outside Afgoye district, 30 km northwest of Mogadishu, the Somali capital.
Afgoye, Somalia —
Early in the day, the Somali intelligence agency said in a statement that at least 30 Al-Shabaab fighters had been killed in a joint operation at the target area in Baqdada village. They said they were targeted while sleeping in their shelters after being displaced from their territory due to conflict and drought in the Lower Shabelle region, south of Somalia.
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