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May 17th


Al-Shabaab Sheikh Killed

Al ShabaabUnidentified gunmen shot and killed a senior official of the al-Qaeda-inspired al-Shabaab group in the southern Somali port town of Kismayo that it controls, officials said on Saturday.

Sheik Daud Ali Hasan, who was in charge of the al-Shabaab's military operations in the town of Dhobley on the Kenyan border, was killed by men armed with handguns as he headed home in Kismayo on Friday night.

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"We have arrested some suspects but we are still investigating the incident and by God's will we will arrest those behind the killing," Sheikh Abukar Ali Adan, a senior al-Shabaab administrative official in the region, said.

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"I heard gunshots and saw two men running; we rushed to the scene and there was a body lying there in a pool of blood," witness Abdi Hasan Ise told AFP by telephone.

Sheikh Daud had recently returned from Dhobley, where the al-Shabaab fought against a faction of Hezb al-Islam, another hard line Islamist group with which al-Shabaab is normally allied.
-Reuters

 

 

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