This content was published on April 30, 2022 – 11:31 am April 30, 2022 – 11:31 am
Mogadishu, 30 April (EFE).- At least nine Somali soldiers died this Saturday when a bomb exploded as their convoy passed in the Middle Shabelle region of southern Somalia, security forces sources said.
The blast rocked a convoy carrying a senior Somali army commander, General Saney Abdulle, traveling on the road between the country’s capital, Mogadishu, and Jowhar, the administrative capital of Hirshabelle state.
Addulle escaped the attack unharmed, confirmed the above sources, quoted by local radio station Radio Dalsan.
The general was injured in a suicide attack by the jihadist group Al Shabab on a military base in the same region in June last year and had to be evacuated to Turkey for medical treatment.
Although no one has yet claimed responsibility for Saturday’s attack, Al Shabab makes frequent attacks on Somali government security forces, which are backed by the international community.
The jihadist group, which has been part of the Al Qaeda terrorist network since 2012, controls areas in the center and south of the country and aims to establish a Wahhabi (ultra-conservative) Islamic state.
Somalia has lived in a state of conflict and chaos since the fall of dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991, leaving the country without an effective government and in the hands of warlords and Islamist militias. EFE
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