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| Seven Die in Shebab Attacks in Somalia |
| 2015-01-03 |
| [AnNahar] Six Somali soldiers and one civilian were killed on Friday in an attack by Shabaab bully boyz on a military checkpoint in Baidoa and in a boom-mobileing in the capital Mogadishu, officials said. A Somali military official, Colonel Mohammed Hassan, said six soldiers died when the Shabaab, al-Qaeda's main African affiliate, carried out a pre-dawn raid against their post near Baidoa, some 250 kilometers (155 miles) northwest of Mogadishu. "The Shabaab fighters attacked three locations including the checkpoint outside Baidoa. Three of their fighters were killed," said Suleyman Abdulahi, another local official. In another incident, a civilian was killed and two other maimed in a boom-mobileing blamed on the Shabaab, who are fighting to topple Somalia's internationally-backed government. "They attached a boom-mobile to the civilian's car. The civilian was killed and two others maimed," interior ministry front man Mohammed Yusuf told news hounds. The attacks came at the end of a week which saw the United States conduct another air strike against the group. The Somali government said the Shabaab's intelligence chief, Abdishakur Tahlil, was killed in Monday night's raid. The Shabaab's former leader Ahmed Abdi Godane was also killed by a U.S. air strike in September. |
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