US launches new air strike on Somalia: Govt source

Mogadishu, Jan 10: US forces hunting al Qaeda suspects launched a fresh air strike on southern Somalia today, a Somali government source said.

''As we speak now, the area is being bombarded by the American air force,'' he told Reuters, giving no further details.

The latest attack followed mounting international criticism of a U S strike in the area on Monday which Somali officials said had killed many people.

The attack on a south Somali village by an AC-130 plane firing automatic cannon was believed to have killed one of three al Qaeda suspects wanted by Washington for twin bombings on U S embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, a U S intelligence official said.

Reuters

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