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Wanamgambo wa Al-Shabaab wametajwa kuhusika katika vifo vya Watu 21 na kuharibu magari yaliyokuwa yamebeba chakula cha msaada katika shambulizi Mkoani Hiran Nchini Somalia.
Magari yalikuwa yakisafirisha chakula kutoka Jiji la Baladweyne kwenda Mji wa Mahas ambapo awali mashambuliazi yao yaliua Watu 18 baadaye wakatega mlipuko ambao uliua raia wengine watatu.
Mamlaka zimeeleza kuwa Wanamgambo hao wanawaua wananchi wa kawaida ili kuweka hofu juu ya uwepo wao kwa kuwa Serikali ya Somalia imeshatangaza kuwa itapambana na kundi hilo ili kuliteketeza.
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Al-Shabab Kills 21 in Somalia’s Hiran Province
Somali officials and residents say al-Shabab militants shot and killed at least 21 travelers in the country's central region of Hiran on Friday night.
Speaking to VOA, Mahas District Commissioner Mumin Mohamed Halane said the killings occurred in the outskirts of Beledweyne, a town around 300 km north of Mogadishu.
“The militants ambushed the travelers in nine vehicles, indiscriminately opened fire on them and killed 18 civilians,” Halane told VOA Somali over the phone.
“Three more civilians died when improvised explosive device apparently planted by the militants targeted their vehicle in the same area,” he added.
He said the victims were drivers and local civilians heading to his town, Mahas, around 90 km from Beledweyne, Hiran's capital.
"Al-Shabab is targeting civilians because they are in a desperate situation and want to make the locals surrender. That will never happen. We will fight with them to our last drop,” Halane said.
Local elders who saw the bodies of civilians told VOA on condition of anonymity that most of the victims had gunshot wounds to the head.
One elder said the militants first indiscriminately fired a volley of shots at the travelers' vehicles, forced the surviving passengers out and shot them dead, leaving their bodies on the roadside.
The elders said during the attack the militants burned trucks laden with relief food.
A government statement posted on the website of the state news agency, Sonna, confirmed that al-Shabab fighters had burned trucks carrying relief food to Mahas and "killed most of the people on board the vehicles."
In the statement, the government has condemned the al-Shabab attacks on civilians. “We condemn the heinous and cowardly attacks in which the al-Shabab militants are targeting civilians, while they wouldn’t dare to face our brave soldiers and the locals who organized themselves to defend from the aggression of al-Shabab,” the statement said.
The “Somali National Army will retaliate with its own punitive military measures,” the statement concluded.
Al-Qaida-affiliated al-Shabab immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, saying its fighters targeted self-organized, pro-government local militias known as Ma'awisley.
Source: VOA
Magari yalikuwa yakisafirisha chakula kutoka Jiji la Baladweyne kwenda Mji wa Mahas ambapo awali mashambuliazi yao yaliua Watu 18 baadaye wakatega mlipuko ambao uliua raia wengine watatu.
Mamlaka zimeeleza kuwa Wanamgambo hao wanawaua wananchi wa kawaida ili kuweka hofu juu ya uwepo wao kwa kuwa Serikali ya Somalia imeshatangaza kuwa itapambana na kundi hilo ili kuliteketeza.
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Al-Shabab Kills 21 in Somalia’s Hiran Province
Somali officials and residents say al-Shabab militants shot and killed at least 21 travelers in the country's central region of Hiran on Friday night.
Speaking to VOA, Mahas District Commissioner Mumin Mohamed Halane said the killings occurred in the outskirts of Beledweyne, a town around 300 km north of Mogadishu.
“The militants ambushed the travelers in nine vehicles, indiscriminately opened fire on them and killed 18 civilians,” Halane told VOA Somali over the phone.
“Three more civilians died when improvised explosive device apparently planted by the militants targeted their vehicle in the same area,” he added.
He said the victims were drivers and local civilians heading to his town, Mahas, around 90 km from Beledweyne, Hiran's capital.
"Al-Shabab is targeting civilians because they are in a desperate situation and want to make the locals surrender. That will never happen. We will fight with them to our last drop,” Halane said.
Local elders who saw the bodies of civilians told VOA on condition of anonymity that most of the victims had gunshot wounds to the head.
One elder said the militants first indiscriminately fired a volley of shots at the travelers' vehicles, forced the surviving passengers out and shot them dead, leaving their bodies on the roadside.
The elders said during the attack the militants burned trucks laden with relief food.
A government statement posted on the website of the state news agency, Sonna, confirmed that al-Shabab fighters had burned trucks carrying relief food to Mahas and "killed most of the people on board the vehicles."
In the statement, the government has condemned the al-Shabab attacks on civilians. “We condemn the heinous and cowardly attacks in which the al-Shabab militants are targeting civilians, while they wouldn’t dare to face our brave soldiers and the locals who organized themselves to defend from the aggression of al-Shabab,” the statement said.
The “Somali National Army will retaliate with its own punitive military measures,” the statement concluded.
Al-Qaida-affiliated al-Shabab immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, saying its fighters targeted self-organized, pro-government local militias known as Ma'awisley.
Source: VOA
