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Al-Shabab Militants Kill 167 Ethiopian Soldiers
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Al-Shabab Militants Kill 167 Ethiopian Soldiers
By Kwanza Bemon
Heavy casualties have been reported in two ambushes by al-Shabaab terrorists on Ethiopian peacekeepers and subsequent armed clashes in the southwestern region of Somalia on Sunday.
The al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorist group al-Shabaab attacked a military convoy of Ethiopian peacekeepers from the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) on their way to the Wajid district in the Bakool region on Sunday morning.
While the second convoy of soldiers was on its way to Huddur, the provincial capital of Bakool, official sources confirmed the two attacks and subsequent counterattacks on the terrorists to Anadolu over the phone.
Surviving Ethiopian soldiers had been captured and the advance of Ethiopian troops had been stopped, the report said, adding that the militants also destroyed Ethiopian military equipment and seized a large amount of weapons, Sputnik reported citing the Somali Guardian news portal.
The Ethiopian military tried to strengthen its forward operating base in the town of Wajid, which has been under militants’ control for almost a decade, the news portal reported.
The al-Shabaab terrorist group is an armed group affiliated with the al-Qaeda terrorist network and has claimed responsibility for many terrorist operations that have killed hundreds of people in Africa.
