Somalia’s Islamist militant group al Shabaab attacked a town in a region near Kenya’s border, killing at least seven Somali soldiers, the group and Somali officials said.
Al Shabaab, which regularly attacks Somali forces in its campaign to oust Somalia’s Western-backed government, pulled its fighters out of El Wak overnight, residents said on Saturday.
“We captured five military vehicles and killed several members of the government forces,” al Shabaab’s military operations spokesman, Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, told Reuters after the assault was launched on Friday afternoon.
Somali Major Mohamed Jimcale told Reuters on telephone from the nearby Somali town of Baardheere that government forces had retreated to another town where there is a base for the African Union’s AMISOM force.
“We lost at least seven soldiers and two vehicles,” he said.
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