"Growing up in a nomadic family in central Somalia's Galgaduud region, Luul Dahir Mohamed, like many girls in her Bedouin community, never got the opportunity to go to school. But as she grew up, married and had two children Mohamed and Mariam she dreamed of a better life for them. After her marriage ended, the young mother decided to relocate from her rural community in Bergan to the central Somali city of El Buur in 2018,"
"It was April 1, 2018, when Luul and her daughter joined several other passengers in a pick-up truck headed to the town of Dac, about 18km (11 miles) from El Buur. They were on their way to visit Luul's older brother Qassim when the vehicle was struck. She'd only been there [in El Buur] for a couple [of] months, before she was killed in the [United States] drone strike, her other brother, 38-year-old Abubakar Dahir Mohamed, told Al Jazeera."
"When they fired on the vehicle, Luul made it out with her daughter. They knew it was a woman and child, and then they fired once again, killing them both in the second strike, Abubakar said from the Somali capital, Mogadishu. The Americans claim to uphold human rights, but apparently, when it comes to people like my sister and niece, their lives don't matter."
US Africa Command admitted to causing civilian deaths in air raids and declined to make condolence payments. A young nomadic woman, Luul Dahir Mohamed, never attended school, married, and had two children, Mohamed and Mariam. After her marriage ended she moved from Bergan to El Buur in 2018 seeking better opportunities. On April 1, 2018, Luul and her four-year-old daughter joined other passengers in a pick-up truck headed to Dac when the vehicle was struck by a drone strike. Locals found several bodies at the scene; Luul was found clutching her child, whose body bore shrapnel wounds, and relatives reported a follow-up strike that killed them both.
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