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U.S. service member killed, two injured in Somalia attack

By Ed Adamczyk
An Air Force Honor Guard bugler plays Taps during the funeral service for U.S. Air Force 2nd Lt., Malvin Greston "Mal" Whitfield, at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia on June 8, 2016. Whitfield served in the U.S. Army Air Forces in 1943 as a member of the Tuskegee Airmen and was also a five-time Olympic medalist, including three gold. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI
An Air Force Honor Guard bugler plays Taps during the funeral service for U.S. Air Force 2nd Lt., Malvin Greston "Mal" Whitfield, at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia on June 8, 2016. Whitfield served in the U.S. Army Air Forces in 1943 as a member of the Tuskegee Airmen and was also a five-time Olympic medalist, including three gold. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI | License Photo

May 5 (UPI) -- A U.S. service member died in an attack while advising troops in Somalia, U.S. Africa Command announced Friday.

Two other U.S. military members were injured in the attack, CNN reported.

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The U.S. troops were advising members of the Somali national army, which is combating the al-Shabab terrorist organization in Barii about 40 miles west of the capital of Mogadishu when they came under small arms fire.

The U.S. advisers were involved in an "advise and assist mission," U.S. Africa Command said in a statement, an undertaking different from the accelerated U.S. military effort in Somalia of airstrikes against terrorists.

The names of the servicemen involved in the incident were not released.

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