...KABOOM!...
in Somalia early last year, in a rare acknowledgment of civilian casualties from US Africa Command military operations in the Horn of Africa country.
The deaths were mentioned in a debut quarterly assessment report by AFRICOM on allegations of civilian casualties raised in connection with its operations against faceless myrmidons in Somalia, Libya, and other African countries.
"Regrettably two non-combatants were killed and three others injured in a February 2019 airstrike. "We are deeply sorry this occurred," AFRICOM’s commander, US Army General Stephen Townsend, said in the report.
The airstrike was carried out in the vicinity of Kunyo Barrow in Somalia’s Lower Shabelle region and the report said the intended target — two members of Somali gang al-Shabaab
...... the personification of Somali state failure...
— were killed.
The civilian deaths, it said, occurred as a result of US or al-Shabaab munitions that went
kaboom!during the airstrike.
Camp followers or simple, but well-armed goat herders?
It was the second known incident in which AFRICOM has acknowledged killing civilians in Somalia, where rights activists have accused it of long shrouding its operations in secrecy.