Guardian readers fund life-changing surgery for Somali boy injured in US airstrike

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Seven-year-old Abdiqadir Salah, injured in a US drone strike on Jamaame, Somalia, underwent surgery in Mogadishu funded by Guardian readers. A Guardian investigation found that the strike killed at least 12 civilians, including eight children, and injured others.

After Guardian investigation uncovered drone strike that killed 12 civilians and injured many more, seven-year-old Abdiqadir Salah underwent vital operation in Mogadishu On the rickshaw ride to the hospital, Marian Haji Abdi Guled felt a mixture of joy and apprehension: the day they had been waiting for had finally arrived. Almost a year earlier, her then seven-year-old son, Abdiqadir Salah, had been seriously injured, alongside his two siblings, in what a Guardian investigation found was a US drone strike on the village of Jamaame in Somalia that killed at least 12 civilians, including eight children. Continue reading...