Al-Shabab denies US strike in Somalia killed 150 fighters
Source: BBC
Al-Shabab denies US strike in Somalia killed 150 fighters
8 March 2016 Africa
Militant Islamist group al-Shabab has dismissed as exaggerated US claims that more than 150 of its fighters were killed in an air strike in Somalia.
The militants do not meet in such large numbers in "one spot" because of the threat of an attack, a spokesman said.
He did not give details of casualties.
A resident said that al-Shabab had arrested several people from the remote central Somali village of Raso, after the US bombed its training camp in a nearby forested area on Saturday.
The US said the strike, by both drones and manned aircraft, was aimed at preventing a "large-scale attack" by the al-Qaeda-linked militants.
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