adminAt least 17 others were injured in the attacks yesterday, on the outskirts of north Mogadishu.
Further details regarding the incident have not yet been released.
Washington has been carrying out assassination attacks using the unmanned aircraft in other countries including Afghanistan, Libya, Pakistan, and Yemen.
Somalia has not had an effective central government since 1991, when warlords overthrew former dictator Mohamed Siad Barre.
The weak Western-backed transitional government in Mogadishu has been battling al-Shabab fighters for the past five years and is propped up by a 10 000-strong African Union force from Uganda, Burundi, and Djibouti.
Strategically located in the Horn of Africa, the country remains among the ones generating the highest number of refugees and internally-displaced persons in the world. — Presstv.
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