Click to play videoNew Delhi: A suspected al-Qaeda leader was killed along with 10 others in a US strike in Somalia.
US missiles destroyed the house of Aden Hashi Ayro, believed to be a top al-Qaeda commander in the central Somali town of Dusamareeb.
The missiles left a smoldering hole where Ayro's home had stood in the central Somali town of Dusamareeb, locals said.
They said said five bodies were retrieved from Ayro's house and the other five dead and four wounded came from neighbouring homes.
A US Spokesman however declined to confirm if it was an airstrike. The killing of Aden Hashi Ayro came amid escalating fighting and a spiraling humanitarian crisis in the Horn of Africa nation.
UN-sponsored peace talks are scheduled to start on May 10 in Somalia, but the latest attack has damaged negotiations even before they began say analysts at the International Crisis Group think tank — which were supposed to bring together the disparate groups in the armed opposition to the existing government.
The talks offered a slim hope of bringing together the disparate groups in the armed opposition.
It may also undermine the new prime minister, who wished to include more extreme fighters in the talks despite opposition from the president.
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