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Suspected al-Shabaab militants attacked a Somali military base in the central Galgaduud region on Monday, the defence ministry said, days after the area was captured by government forces.

File Image: Al-Shabaab soldiers sit outside a building during patrol along the streets of Dayniile district in Southern Mogadishu, March 5, 2012.File Image: Al-Shabaab soldiers sit outside a building during patrol along the streets of Dayniile district in Southern Mogadishu, March 5, 2012.

The army repulsed the attack on the base housing national and local troops in Qayib, a village captured from al-Shabaab last week, defence ministry spokesman Abdullahi Ali Anod told the state news agencyThe attack began with two suicide car bombs at around 0500 local time , followed by hours of heavy fighting, Ahmed Hassan, a military officer in the nearby town of Bahdo, toldA spokesman for al-Shabaab could not immediately be reached by telephone.

The al Qaeda-linked group has killed tens of thousands of people since 2006 in their fight to overthrow Somalia’s Western-backed central government and implement their interpretation of Islamic law.

 

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