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Seven Al-Shabaab Militants Killed In Southern Somali Region

by PH December 26, 2020, 5:50 am

Somali Navy recruits at a passing out parade at Lido Beach. Mogadishu, Somalia 16 October 2012 (Photo by Noe Falk Nielsen/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Somali security forces killed seven members of Al-Shabaab militants on Thursday in an operation in Garbaharey, a town in Somalia’s southern region of Gedo, a government official confirmed on Friday.

Adam Abdi Hirsi, the operational commander of Garbaharey said that the army got intelligence of the militants’ presence in villages in the town.

“Our forces advanced to areas where the militants were hiding and we killed seven al-Shabab fighters during a fierce confrontation with the militants,” said Hirsi.

The latest incident came amid sustained operations by Somali army against al-Shabab fighters in central and southern regions where the militants are still in control of the rural areas, conducting ambushes and planting landmines.