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| Africa Horn |
| Al-Shabaab Launches Deadly Assaults in Somali Capital |
| 2018-07-10 |
| [All Africa] More than 15 people have been killed and more than two dozen others were maimed in two assaults Saturday on the compound of Somalia's interior and security ministries in capital city Mogadishu, according to witnesses. The first attack began when button men set off huge kabooms outside the main gate of the interior ministry building before three forces of Evil stormed it. Smoke was seen rising above the scene. Witnesses said the security forces launched a counterterror operation and engaged in an hour-long battle with the forces of Evil before ending the siege and killing all the three armed attackers. Witnesses said government workers were among those killed in the first attack. "I have seen with my eyes at least 10 dead bodies lying inside the compound" a female witness told VOA. Speaking to news hounds, the Somali Information Minister Dahir Mohamud Geelle said the forces of Evil carried out today's attacks to kill and maim civilians. "They killed and maimed a number of people who were inside the compound, but the security forces engaged with the forces of Evil and killed all the terrorist," Geelle said. The minister declined to say how many people were killed in the attacks. An official who asked not to be named, though, said the corpse count could rise as authorities sort through the building, the exterior compound and at a police building across from the interior and security ministries. Dozens of people trapped in the building during the battle were rescued during the operation, while others escaped by leaping from the windows. Abdinasir Said Muse, the deputy minister of security, was among those rescued from the compound. |
| Posted by:Fred |