[dehai-news] (AP) Surveillance drone crashes in Somali capital

From: Er-News <er_news_at_dehai.org_at_dehai.org>
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 22:14:31 -0500

Surveillance drone crashes in Somali capital


Somali soldiers patrol inside the Badbado refugee camp in Mogadishu,
Somalia Friday,

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) Witnesses say a surveillance drone has
crashed into a refugee camp in the Somali capital.

Drones have been used by the U.S. to attack or observe al-Qaida-
linked militants in the Horn of Africa nation.

Refugees and soldiers in Mogadishu's Badbado camp say they watched
the drone crash Friday into a hut made of sticks, corrugated cans and
plastic bags.

Sacdiyo Sheikh Madar, a refugee at the camp, says African Union
peacekeepers came to remove it.

Police officer Ali Hussein says the drone was shaped like a small
plane. A similar drone crashed into a house in Mogadishu last year.


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