Six Somali fighters killed in clash

Press TV
Friday, March 30, 2012

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At least six al-Shabab fighters have been killed in the latest spate of violence between Somalia’s government-allied forces and the group in a southern Somali border town, Press TV reports.

The clash broke out on Thursday after al-Shabab fighters attacked a convoy carrying Somalia’s Ahlu Sunna Waljama militias and Ethiopian troops in the Bohol-Bashir village, 37 kilometer east of the Luuq district in Gedo region.

The spokesman for Ahlu Sunna Waljama said al-Shabab forces attacked the convoy as it was heading to Yurkud from Luuq.

“Anti-government forces attacked our convoy, include Ethiopian soldiers, but we repelled them. We have killed 6 rebels,” said Sheikh Abdullahi Abdirahman (Al-Qadi).

However, al-Shabab officials claimed they killed dozens of Ethiopian troops, burning five of their armored vehicles.

“We have ambushed Ethiopian infidels’ convoy near Luuq after they went over landmines that we buried; we burned down five of their military vehicles and killed several of their soldiers,” Sheikh Abdiaziz Abu Mus’ab, al-Shabab’s military spokesman told their own radio station late on Thursday.

Bohol-Bashir is located in the West of Gedo, near the borders with Ethiopia and Kenya and has been under al-Shabab control since 2009.

Somalia has been the scene of a decades-long civil strife that erupted after the ouster of former junta ruler Mohammed Siad Barre, which has left the country without a functioning government since 1991.

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