[Iran Press TV] At least 23 people have been killed and twelve others maimed in two separate attacks in central and southern Somalia, Press TV reports.Eighteen people, including seven civilians, were killed on Tuesday in festivities between al-Shabaab
... Harakat ash-Shabaab al-Mujahidin aka the Mujahideen Youth Movement. It was originally the youth movement of the Islamic Courts, now pretty much all of what's left of it. They are aligned with al-Qaeda but operate more like the Afghan or Pakistani Taliban...
Islamic fascisti and Somali Transitional Federal Government troops in the southern district of Medina in the Somali capital Mogadishu.
"The rebels [al-Shaboobs] attacked our forces using speedboat and armed vehicles. We killed six al-Shabaab rebels in the fighting," Somali government official Ahmed Hassan said.
Al-Shabaab officials confirmed the festivities and said their fighters killed more than five government troops and are now in control of the town.
In another incident on Tuesday, at least five people bit the dust in a kaboom in the Galmudug region of central Somalia.
The attack targeted the house of Somali Minister for Water and Mineral Resources Abdi Hassan Awale, who is known as Qeybdid, in the south of Galkacyo town, located about 700 kilometers northwest of Mogadishu.
Residents said two of Awale's guards were among the dead but Awale was not injured.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, but al-Shabaab Islamic fascisti frequently carry out kabooms targeting Somali government officials and security forces.