Somalia: Insurgents Claim Suicide Attacks on Peacekeepers

Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu)

31 May 2011

Mogadishu — Al Shabaab movement on Tuesday claimed the responsibility of deadly attacks on AMISOM and Somali government forces in the capital Mogadishu.

The spokesman of Al Shabaab, Sheikh Ali Mohamoud Rage said that they fighters of theirs attacked AMISOM base Mogadishu’s Makka Al Mukarrama road.

He said that they killed and wounded more thirty soldiers including high ranking officials.

“Eight fighters from the commandos of Al Shabaab have conducted the sacred mission against AMISOM,” Rage told the local media late on Monday.

For his part, the deputy spokesman of AMISOM forces Prosber Hakazima told the media that at least two of their soldiers were killed and four others injured in those attacks.

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