By Tim Marshall, Foreign Affairs Editor
The man said to be the master bombmaker for the al Shabaab terrorist group has been killed by a drone strike in southern Somalia.
A car carrying Ibrahim Ali Abdi, also known as Anta Anta, was hit by three missiles as it travelled along a road near the town of Jilib on Monday.
Somali intelligence sources, quoted by news agencies, said Ali Abdi was the group's explosives expert and specialised in making suicide vests and car bombs.
A witness to the attack, Hassan Nur, told Reuters he saw a drone above the Suzuki vehicle in which at least two men were travelling.
"I saw a big crash and then saw a drone disappearing far into the sky ... many al Shabaab men came to the scene," he said.
Al Shabaab was behind the September massacre on a Kenyan shopping centre "Many cars were driving ahead of me, but the drone targeted this Suzuki."
An unnamed American official told the LA Times the strike was carried out by the US Army, but this has not been officially confirmed.
The US is known to operate drones from bases in Djibouti and southern Ethiopia.
The air strike follows a pattern of pressure bearing down on al Shabaab, which has been driven from Somalia's main towns by a combination of African Union forces and clandestine American operations.
Al Shabaab hit back with the recent attack on a Nairobi shopping mall, but appears unable to regain any ground inside Somalia.
The loss of its chief bombmaker is a blow to the group as it will take time to train other men up to the deadly standard of Ali Abdi.
It comes less than a fortnight since the group claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack near a military base in the city of Beledweyne, around 210 miles north of Somalian capital Mogadishu, which killed at least 13 people.
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