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2021/01/02 21:26 ISTANBUL (AP) A suicide bombing in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, on Saturday killed five people including two Turks, the Turkish health minister said. The al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab extremist group claimed responsibility for the attack in a post from its Shahada News Agency. The Somalia-based group often targets Mogadishu with suicide bombings and other attacks, and it has exploded bombs against the Turkish military and other targets there in the past. Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca tweeted that 14 people, including three Turks, were wounded and are being treated in a Mogadishu hospital named after Turkey’s president. He did not give the nationalities of the other three people who died.
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The Al-Shabaab militant group abducted and beheaded the chief of a clutch of villages in northeastern Kenya near the border with Somalia, the Islamists and local police sources said Wednesday.
Omar Adan Buul, the head of the Gumarey sub-location in Wajir county, was kidnapped on Friday by jihadists who had raided the area and lectured the locals , according to Kenyan media reports. It is true the chief who went missing last week on Friday has been found dead. His head was dumped on the road but the rest of the body has not been found, a local police officer said on condition of anonymity.
Last Friday, gunmen stormed Gumurey, a village near the border with Somalia.
After heavy clashes with police in the area, the group managed kidnap Omar Adan Buul, the head of the Gumarey sub-location in Wajir county.
The gunmen also lectured the locals and warned them against working with Kenyan government.
On Tuesday, herders in Qorfa-Harar locality had found the head of Buul on roadside, according to Kenya police. The police also said the body of the victim is yet to be found.
“It is true the chief who went missing last week on Friday has been found dead. His head was dumped on the road but the rest of the body has not been found,” a local police officer who sought anonymity told AFP.