Somali police foil bomb attack in Beledweyne

Hiiraan Online
Sunday February 5, 2017

Somali and AU forces outside Beledweyne. FILE PHOTO

Mogadishu (HOL) - Police in Beledweyne said they had thwarted an attempted bomb attack targeting government forces on Saturday after an IED placed on a well-travelled road was defused by security forces.

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Police Commissioner Ali Abdulle told reporters that the road is used by Somali and AU forces regularly and added that Al-Shabaab is the likely culprit.

"We managed to pull out and dismantled a bomb on the road which the Somali and AU forces travel on regularly.

"We believe Al-Shabaab planted them to target the forces," said Abdulle.

He called on locals to cooperate with the police and to report any suspicious activity and foreign objects left on the road.

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