41 terrorists killed in suicide attack in Somalia

The Somali National Army (SNA) said 41 al-Shabaab militants were killed and several others injured in a suicide attack in the country’s Galmudug state. An SNA commander told state-media that three SNA soldiers and five of Galmudug’s regional paramilitary forces (Dervish) were also killed during last night’s attack near a security camp in Visil, one of Galmudug’s safest towns. is one.

The military said some civilians and soldiers wounded in the fighting were taken to the country’s capital, Mogadishu, for treatment.

The Somali government strongly condemned the terrorist attack on Sunday by al-Shabaab and sent its condolences to the families of those killed by the terrorists.

The Deputy Information Minister, Abdirahman Youssef al-Adala, said the government had taken immediate action to help the people of Wisil, who showed courage and resisted attempts by terrorists to attack his city.

The al-Shabaab terrorist group fighting the government has been driven out of major strongholds in Somalia in recent years in joint attacks by AMISOM and local forces, but the group is still carrying out attacks across the country.