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DFL techniques estimate the locations of transceiver-free targets by analyzing their shadowing effects on the radio signals that travel through the area of interest. Recently, compressive sensing (CS) theory has been applied in DFL to reduce the number of measurements by exploiting the inherent spatial sparsity of target locations. In this paper, we propose a novel CS-based multi-target DFL method to leverage the frequency diversity of fine-grained subcarrier information. Specifically, we build the dictionaries of multiple channels based on the saddle surface model and formulate the multi-target DFL as a joint sparse recovery problem. To estimate the location vector, an iterative location vector estimation algorithm is developed under the multitask Bayesian compressive sensing (MBCS) framework. 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