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Al-Shabaab carries out gun and bomb attack in Kahda district, Mogadishu
[ShabelleMedia] An attack took place in Mogadishu’s Kahda district on Friday night, shattering a relative calm that has been witnessed since Hassan Sheikh took office.The al-Qaeda-linked hard boy group al-Shabaab  ... the personification of Somali state failure...was reported to have carried out an ambush gun attack targeting a military police checkpoint in the district, according to the witnesses. An official said the attack was repelled by the police and pushed back the attackers from al-Shabaab, who wanted to show their presence and power to hit any target in the city. The night-time gun attack was followed by a kaboom in the morning which resulted from an IED planted in an area, where the police were manning a checkpoint to check the cars. The details of the casualties remained unclear as local authorities did not release a statement regarding the gun and kabooms in the Kahda district in the Benadir region. Posted by: trailing wife 2024-01-22 |
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