Unidentified drone crashes in Mogadishu

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Unidentified drone crashes in Mogadishu

The Associated Press
Posted : Friday Feb 3, 2012 18:39:49 EST

MOGADISHU, Somalia — A surveillance drone has crashed into a refugee camp in the Somali capital, according to witnesses.

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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Somali soldiers patrol inside the Badbado refugee camp in Mogadishu, Somalia, on Feb. 3. Refugees and soldiers in the camp say they watched a surveillance drone crash into a hut in the camp, before African Union peacekeepers came to remove it.

Farah Abdi Warsameh / The Associated Press Somali soldiers patrol inside the Badbado refugee camp in Mogadishu, Somalia, on Feb. 3. Refugees and soldiers in the camp say they watched a surveillance drone crash into a hut in the camp, before African Union peacekeepers came to remove it.

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