Somalia says al-Shabab official killed
Somalia's national security agency says a senior
official with the al-Shabab extremist group has been killed, a day after the US
military announced an airstrike against al-Shabab in the same area.
Saturday's statement says the unnamed official in
charge of collecting revenue was killed on Thursday in Kunyo Barrow, north of
the port city of Kismayo, ABC News reported on Saturday.
The US statement says its airstrike near Kunyo
Barrow on Thursday killed two extremists. The US has carried out over two dozen
such airstrikes this year against al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab.
In a separate attack, the African Union peacekeeping
mission this week said al-Shabab's head of tax collection in Lower Shabelle
region was killed on Monday after an ambush on a meeting in Bariire.
