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| Africa Horn |
| Somalia Shooting Spree |
| 2016-12-26 |
| Puntland army prosecutor shot dead in Bosasso city Unidentified assailants thought to be Al Shabaab members have shot and killed the military prosecutor of Puntland state in the northeastern coastal town of Bosasso on Sunday morning. An eyewitness said the gunmen fled from the scene after shooting dead the attorney general of Puntland military. No group has yet claimed responsibility for the murder. Last week, Al shabaab has killed a deputy police commander and Puntland’s presidency director in Bosasso city which has been hit by Al shabaab attacks over the past few years. Puntland, a semi-autonomous federal state in northeast of Somalia is battling for years pro-ISIL militants and Al shabaab fighters in the mountains of Galgala near Bosasso town. Shaboob hard boy claims responsibility for killing of military official Al Shabaab Islamist-militant group has claimed responsibility for the killing of a senior military official on Sunday by assailants in Bosaso city, Garowe Online report. Abdikarim Hasan Fidiyo, the Attorney General of Puntland Military courts, died Sunday after armed men attacked him near the Police headquarter, the militia group’s spokesman Abu Musab said in an announcement on affiliated media outlet. He said Fidiyo has prosecuted many militants linked to the group and was responsible for the death sentences that were giving to their fighters by Puntland courts. He has fought against the group and their operations, added Abu Musab. However, the late official has made an interview with a local radio station before he was assassinated. In the interview, Fidiyo said his visit to Bosaso city was aimed to take part in the hearing procedures for 70 cases in the military court of Appeals, andfor those who were convicted with serious crimes. The official spoke about the past fighting between Al Shabaab group and Puntland forces in last March, and indicated that a group of Al Shabaab fighters who were captured have been relocated to the Somali capital Mogadishu, for rehabilitation program because they were minors. On the other hand, the official has denied the release of any convicted Al Shabaab fighters from Puntland prisons in the past. Following the interview, Fidiyo was targeted on his way to the Police headquarter amid the presence of security forces in the surrounding areas. During a BBC interview, The Chief Judge of Puntland Military courts, Abdifatah Haji Adan, has confirmed the presence of security troops near the scene, whereas the suspects was reported to flee the crime scene, and vowed to take necessary actions against troops’ negligence. The assassination of Fidiyo is among a series of high-profile killings in Bosaso in recent weeks as the northeastern region was fighting a faction affiliated to Islamic State in the past months in port town Qandala, located 75 km east of Bosaso. Three killed in Al Shabaab attack near Hudur town At least three people are reported to have been killed, and dozens wounded in an Al Shabaab attack on Somali military outpost near Hudur town on Sunday. A Somali military officer told Radio Shabelle that heavily armed Al shabaab fighters ambushed army base, sparking fierce clash. The army commander added that SNA forces repulsed the Al Shabaab attack and drove back attackers from the area following a deadly gunfight that left 3 dead. He said those killed in Sunday fighting near Hudur city, the regional capital of Bakol region were unarmed civilians who caught in the cross-fire. Gunmen kill 5 pastoralists outside Kismayo city Unidentified assailants have murdered at least five pastoralist during an attack on a rural village located about 70Km away from the southern coastal city of Kismayo on Sunday, according to residents. The five livestock herders were killed in deadly ambush attack which took place at Feer-sagaro area, where thousands of nomads are keeping a domestic animals and cultivating their agricultural lands. Several residents who spoke to Radio Shabelle said they could not tell exactly reason behind the attack on the livestock herders and the identity of the attackers. In the past few weeks, there have been clashes between Jubbtland forces backed by local nomads and Al shabaab in the villages near Kismayo town which killed dozens of people. |
| Posted by:Steve White |