The bodies of two Cuban doctors capable of being mobilized by Al-Shabaab were not found

 
Two Cuban doctors who were being held by Somalia's Al-Shabaab were killed in a US airstrike, the extremist group said on Saturday.

Al-Shabaab claimed in a statement published on the Telegram application that the two Cuban doctors, Asil Herrera and Landy Rodriguez, were killed on Thursday in an American air strike in the city of “Jalab” in the Central Juba Governorate, in the Jubbaland State, southern Somalia.

According to the statement, the aerial bombardment, which began around 12:10 a.m., targeted a house in “Jalab,” killing Asil Herrera and Landy Rodriguez on the spot.

On April 12, 2019, the two Cuban doctors were kidnapped by a group of Al-Shabaab militants in an ambush on a road in the town of Mandera in northeastern Kenya, near the Somali border. The attackers also killed one of the two police officers who were guarding medical workers during the attack.