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Somalia: Teachers and students taken into custody for terror links
 (SomaliNet) Somalias government troops stormed an Islamic school near KM4 roundabout in south of Mogadishu today taking out a number of suspected teachers and students as the government continues to hunt down suspects for terror links. One of the students at the Sunna Islamic School told Somalinet that the soldiers raided the building and ordered all the pupils to stop moving and get ready for searching. They have entered all rooms of the school before extracting four teachers and twenty students. All detainees were blindfolded according to eyewitnesses in condition of anonymity. The government soldiers did not give any detail about the arrest of the Sunna school teachers and students. We dont know yet where our teachers and students were taken, I am sure that they were innocents. We are asking for their release, said one female student. Meanwhile, the Ethiopian forces together with the Somali government soldiers today raided Banadir Hospital in Mogadishu taking out a number of people including a patient and hospital staff. Witnesses said the troops supported by four battlewagons made a force entry into the hospital patient rooms and the operating room asking the names of the wounded people in the hospital. On July 22, the Ethiopians extracted five patients and their relatives from privately owned hospital in Wardhigley neighborhood, south of the capital. The government intelligence officials said all the arrested people were belonging to the insurgents waging the war in the capital. Posted by: Fred 2007-07-28 |
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