Readers of the Guardian raised enough money within hours to pay for surgery on Abdiqadir Salah, a seven-year-old injured in a US drone strike on Jamaame, Somalia (a town in the southern Lower Juba region), which a Guardian investigation found killed at least 12 civilians, including eight children. Doctors at a Mogadishu hospital removed two pieces of shrapnel from his back but left a third in place because removing it risked paralysis; he is now free of pain. His mother, Marian Haji Abdi Guled, says the family cannot return to Jamaame because drones still fly overhead and US strikes nearby have continued, and she is demanding accountability from Washington, which has not responded to questions about the attack.