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Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...turbans who they caught trying to plant explosives at Bodhei, Lamu County.
According to The Standard, the soldiers were conducting a patrol and upon reaching Bodhei, a notorious place where Al-Shabaab has attacked officers before, they decided to proceed on foot and started shooting indiscriminately.
The action started when the turbans planting improvised bombs, detonated them in panic, thereby giving away their position.
The two faceless myrmidons retaliated and a shootout ensued after which they were overpowered and captured, but not before hurting a few soldiers.
This comes only a day after a lorry hired by KDF to carry construction materials, was badly damaged by an IED on the same road.
In November, Al-Shabaab turbans ambushed a police camp in Ijara, Garissa County but their efforts were thwarted, leaving multiple casualties.
On October, 24 Al-Shabaab fighters were killed by a squad from KDF at Bilis Qooqani, in the southern part of Somalia.