Al-Shabaab militants killed in botched terrorist attack in Gedo

August 19, 2012

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Officials in Gedo displayed the bodies of three suspected al-Shabaab militants on Saturday (August 18th), after they were killed in a failed terrorist attack, UN-funded Radio Bar-Kulan reported.

Beled-Hawo District Commissioner Mohammoud Ahmed Beyhani said the militants were planting explosives around the site of Sunday's Eid al-Fitr prayer in the town, when the explosives detonated prematurely, killing the perpetrators.

Clashes in late July between al-Shabaab and Somalia's Transitional Federal Government soldiers backed by the Kenya Defence Forces left 26 militants dead and many wounded, according to Gedo Governor Mohamed Abdikalil.

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  • Gilbert
    August 21, 2012 @ 01:57:35AM

    The only lastin solution to the somalia troubles is for the sorounding staes like kenya and ethiopia to annexe the country and disband there tradition fpr a 20 year period before returning the contry to its people

  • hosea thurunira
    August 20, 2012 @ 08:25:51AM

    They should NOT kill people like dogs althogh they are terrorist.

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