The government of Somalia has claimed responsibility for the Wednesday night drone strike which killed two senior Al-Shabaab commanders, State radio Radio Moqdisho reports.
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In the chaotic aftermath of the strike, mobile communications were cut off to the area.
The invented talk along the Garissa University bloodbath in Kenya is wiped out in a murmur strike in Somalia, Kenyan experts have taken.
Other two killed, Ismail Jabhadi and Jamaa Adhere, were on Kenya’s most-wanted list, he revealed on his twitter account.
Officials in neighboring Kenya, however, claim the victims were al-Shabab militants, including some of their commanders. Earlier in the week the US had issued an alert that al Shabaab could have been planning an attack during the Obama visit.
‘It was a U.S. drone. “Kenyan forces usually provide ground support, information and intelligence on such strikes”.
He said Jungal was one of the main “al-Shabaab” planning and operations bases in Gedo region which has seen an increase in militia activities recently.
Thursday’s attack came just over a week before United States President Barack Obama is due in Kenya for his first visit to the country since he became president.
Bardere is one of the few Somali towns still controlled by al-Shabab.
A spokesman from the militants could not immediately be reached for comment.
BBC reporter Moalimu Mohamed in Mogadishu said residents in a village near the town have been contactable.
Reported by Obonyo, Kenyan military forces are currently pushing further into Somali territory.
Shabaab militants have been driven from most of the key towns in the last four years that they once held.
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Days later, another gang hijacked a bus and killed 28 people among them teachers and doctors in a separate attack that sparked protests and led to boycotts by civil servants from outside the area.
