Mogadishu 12, Jan.07 ( Sh.M.Network) - Hundreds of families fleeing the US air strike on Afmadow and Raskomboni southern Somalia near the Kenyan border have reached the port town of Kismayu about 500 km (310 miles) south of the capital Mogadishu.Two cargo boats carrying at least 200 Somali refugees fleeing Raskamboni where the Ethiopian and U.S. warplanes raided have shored up Kismayu coats on Thursday and Friday.
The refugees said that they have become targets of the air strikes. Suleiman Ahmed, one of the refugees, told Shabelle reporter Farhan Lafole in Kismayu that they had to hide themselves when they heard the sounds of planes. “The warplane and the helicopter gunship targeted the movements of the people. They think that anyone in Raskamboni is an Islamist, so we had to flee”, he said.
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