Garowe Online (Garowe)
20 April 2011
At least 21 people have been killed and 25 others wounded in clashes between forces loyal to Ahlu Sunah Waljamaca and Al-Shabaab militants on Wednesday, Radio Garowe reports.
Fighting between these forces broke out in Eelwaq district of Gedo region in southern Somalia
Al-Shabaab militia’s spokesman Sheikh Abdulaziz Abu Muscab told the reporters in Mogadishu that his militias attacked local forces in Busaar village about 40kms southeast of Eelwaq district in Gedo region and seized fighting vehicles from the government soldiers.
He claimed that his militias killed dozens of these soldiers.
Somali lawmaker Mohammud Sayid Aden in Gedo region denied the militias allegation and said the Ahlu Sunah forces killed a number of Al-Shabaab fighters in the clashes.
Meanwhile, clashes between these opposing forces erupted in Dobley a Somali-Kenyan border town outskirts and most of the dead people were the warring sides, witnesses told Garowe Online.
The clashes erupted in Qooqaani village of Af-Madow district in southern Somalia and Somali government officials confirmed they captured Sheikh Mohamed Daqal top Al-Shabaab militant’s commander in the fighting.
Somalia was in chaos for the last two decades after warlords overthrown Siad Barre’s Administration 1991.
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