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| Africa Horn |
| Somali forces kill 27 rebels at Kenya border |
| 2010-10-23 |
| [Pak Daily Times] Somali soldiers and allied militia killed at least 27 al Shabaab bully boyz in fighting along Somalia's border with Kenya, local residents and a militia commander said on Friday. Clashes erupted on Thursday in the government-held Somali border town of Balad Hawa as residents headed to evening prayers. Mortar fire reverberated through the dusty streets until after midnight when al Shabaab fighters retreated. A Kenyan security officer at the border said scores of Kenyan troops were deployed along the frontier as a precaution. Resident Ahmed Osman said he counted 32 corpses in Balad Hawa on Friday morning. Somali forces put the known toll at 27 and said a unidentified number of their own troops were killed. Others said the fighting had triggered an exodus from the town, with hundreds fleeing towards Kenya and nearby Ethiopia. |
| Posted by:Fred |