An airstrike has killed the military leader of an Islamic militant group in Somalia with close ties to al Qaeda, a spokesman for the group said Thursday.
The strike also killed a high-ranking member of the Al-Shabab militia, which the United States considers a terrorist organization, said Mukhtar Robow, a militia spokesman. He held a telephone news conference with journalists from an undisclosed location in Somalia.
Adan Hashi Ayrow, the military commander of Al-Shabab, was killed in the strike along with Sheikh Muhudiin Moalin Omar, a senior leader, Robow said. Six others died in the attack and another six were wounded, he said.
The strike happened in Dhusomareb, a town in central Somalia, he said.
He said the United States military conducted the airstrike, but that claim could not immediately be verified.
The U.S. military has attacked several Islamic militants in the last few years in Somalia, including a strike in early March against a man thought to be an al Qaeda associate.
The strike hit a house in the town of Dhusomareb around 3:00 a.m.
In March, the U.S. State Department declared Al-Shabab a foreign terrorist organization.
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