AL SHABAAB TERROR GROUP STORMS SOMALI BORDER TOWN KILLING ABOUT 10 MILITARY MEN

Al Shabaab militants parade new recruits after arriving in Mogadishufrom their training camp south of the capital in this October 21, 2010 file photo. REUTERS/Feisal Omar/Files   

Al Shabaab militants parade new recruits after arriving in Mogadishu from their training camp south of the capital on October 21, 2010 file photo. 


Heavy fighting erupted on Monday in the Somali border town of Balad Hawo near Kenya after Al Shabaab detonated a suicide car bomb and then stormed the military base there, the spokesman of the al Qaeda-linked group told Reuters. 

Al Shabaab, which wants to impose its strict interpretation of Islam in Somalia, has carried out frequent past attacks in Mogadishu and elsewhere in its bid to topple the Western-backed government and drive out African Union peacekeeping troops.

"First, a mujahid with a car bomb rammed into the military base and then we stormed it," the spokesman, Abdiasis Abu Musab, said.The group also said 24 Somali soldiers were killed in the raid, but a Somali military official put the figure at around 10 dead soldiers.
 
"We were awoken by a suicide car bomb this morning and then fierce battle followed," Major Mohamed Abdullahi told Reuters from the town. "We lost at least 10 soldiers. We chased al Shabaab out of the town. We killed seven militants."
The death toll on both sides could still rise, however, he added.

Residents said the fighting was continuing.
"First we heard a huge blast at the military base and then heavy exchange of gunfire followed," Suleiman Nur, a shopkeeper in the town, told Reuters.

"Al Shabaab captured the military base, the police station and most part of the town," he added. "But still we hear heavy exchange of gunfire on the far side of town. I could see two military vehicles taken by Al Shabaab."

Somalia has been at war since 1991, when clan-based warlords overthrew dictator Siad Barre and then turned on each other.

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