Eight killed in air strike on Somalia Islamists: residents

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MOGADISHU, (AFP) — An air strike in central Somalia on Thursday, which insurgents blamed on the United States, killed at least eight people, including two top Islamists, a Somali rebel spokesman and residents said.

The Somali government said one of dead Islamists was an Al-Qaeda nominated leader in the war-shattered country.

There was no immediate comment from the US military on whether it was behind the attack on a house that residents said was used by Islamists in the Dhusamareb district of central Somalia's Galgudud regionin.

"Three heavy bombs dropped by a plane at about 2:00am (2300 GMT) hit a residential house. I have this morning seen eight bodies in the destroyed house," said resident Jamal Mohamoud.

Somali insurgent spokesman Sheikh Mukhtar...