Thursday January 30, 2020
MOGADISHU (HOL) - Somali intelligence agency, NISA has burst an Al-Shabaab explosives ring in Mogadishu averting an attack by the militants intending to use the explosives.
“In a coordinated operation between January 26 and 28th of this month, a cell of Al-Shabaab was discovered and explosives seized,” the agency said in a twitter post.
The video posted by the agency on Twitter shows the assortment of explosives making devices among cable connectors.
The discovery of the explosives was a major shot by the security agencies who have been following up leads to infiltrate the terror network in the city.
A similar operation in early 2019 led to seizure of several weapons and bomb making elements in Elasha Biya area in Mogadishu.
The cache had been buried underground.