The Associated Press
An official in the semiautonomous
Puntland region of Somalia says a surveillance drone has crashed.
Ports and Anti-piracy Minister Saeed
Mohamed Rage said Saturday the drone crashed in Quaw village 20 kilometers
(12miles) west of the port city of Bossasso.
The United States military flies
aerial surveillance drones from Indian Ocean island nation of Seychelles to
monitor piracy off the East African coast, but Rage said it is not clear whose
drone crashed. The U.S. also flies drones that occasionally fire at Somalia's
Islamic extremist rebels in south and central Somalia. The al-Shabab rebels
Tuesday posted pictures on Twitter of what they claimed was a surveillance
drone that had crashed.
Puntland, in northern Somalia, has
escaped the decades of conflict seen in the country's south and central
regions.
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