Four killed, many hurt in roadside blast in Somalia terror attack

At least four people were killed and several others injured in a roadside bomb attack on Thursday targeting a water-carrying vehicle for drought victims in Somalia’s Lower Juba region, state media and police said. anadolu news agency,

According to Somali National Television, the IED was planted by the al-Shabaab terrorist group on the outskirts of the region’s port city of Kismayo.

The attack came hours after an overnight gunfight and mortar shelling in central Somalia that killed at least two children.

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The attackers targeted a military base of Djiboutian forces serving under the African Union mission in Somalia in the city of Beledweyne, the capital of the Hiran region, 344 kilometers (213 miles) from Mogadishu.

“After midnight, al-Shabaab militants attacked our security forces base in Beledvene, but we were able to foil the attack and there were heavy casualties,” a security official in Beledven said. anadolu agency,

Separately, the country’s national intelligence and security agency said it killed at least 12 Somali-based al-Qaeda-linked terrorists in a security operation in the capital on Wednesday night.