US strike kills 60 Al Shabab fighters

The Pentagon’s Africa Command said on Tuesday that it had carried out the deadliest attack against the extremist group Al Shabab in nearly a year, killing about 60 fighters in central Somalia.

The strike took place on Friday in the vicinity of Harardhere, about 483 kilometres northeast of Mogadishu, the capital.

The strike came after a recent spate of attacks that Al Shabab has conducted against Somali security forces and their US advisers across the country. (New York Times News Service)