US drone strike kills 150 Al Shabaab fighters in Somalia

March 07, 2016 23:34

In a move to stop what the US military says was an imminent threat against US troops and African peacekeeping forces in Somalia, a US drone strike in Somalia killed as many as 150 suspected Al Shabaab fighters, the Pentagon said Monday.

The strike took place Saturday, 120 miles north of Mogadishu at a training site called "Raso Camp," according to Pentagon spokesman Capt Jeff Davis.

The camp had been under observation by US special operations forces for several weeks, Davis said. The camp had about 200 fighters on site including Shabaab trainers.

Intelligence indicated the group was training for some time and was in the final stages of getting ready to conduct a "large-scale attack," Davis said.

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