Sep. 10 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Government of Somalia has announced the death of a senior member of the terrorist group Al Shabaab in an operation carried out by the security forces in the Lower Shabelle region, south of the capital, Mogadishu.
The Somali Ministry of Information has indicated in a statement that “the special forces of the Somali Army have destroyed an Al Shabaab financial center in the Mubarak area, in the Lower Shabelle region.”
Thus, he stressed that the operation has resulted in the death of the “leader” of Al Shabaab in the area, identified as ‘alias ‘Carba’, before stressing that about a dozen terrorists have been injured.
“Among the wounded are Osman Daud, who was the highest-ranking al-Shabaab member in Mubarak, and Au Maay, who was responsible for the campaign to extort money from the population in Mubarak,” he said.
In this sense, he has stated that the objective of the operation was the aforementioned “financial center of the terrorist group” and has emphasized that the security forces have also rescued several civilians who were held in the place.
“The Government of Somalia, its Armed Forces and the Somali people are committed to fighting Al Shabaab and ending all forms of terrorism in the country,” he said, while accusing the group of being behind the death of “hundreds of civilians” in attacks in the African country.
Somalia is facing an increase in the number of attacks by the Islamist militia Al Shabaab, both in the capital and in other areas of the south of the country, which has led the president, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, to promise that he will focus his efforts on security matters during the first hundred days of his mandate.
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