‘Misdirected’ US airstrike kills 22 Somali troops

‘US forces have been accused of killing 22 Somali troops in what is said to be a misdirected airstrike in the country’s northern regions.
On Wednesday, Galmudug states’ Security Minister Osman Issa announced that his soldiers were killed in the airstrike, adding that the attack was launched on a request of from the rival neighboring region of Puntland on the pretext that the targets were al-Shabab militants.
“Puntland misinformed the United States and thus our forces were bombed,” he said.’
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