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Somali Police Kill Two Al-Shabaab Militants for Murder of a Baladweyne Cop

Somali Police Force (SPF) officers have killed two Al-Shabaab militants for the recent murder of a cop in Baladweyne.

A police spokesperson said that SPF officers killed the two suspected members of the militant group on March 5.

Apparently, police believe that the two extremists had participated in the assassination of Ahmed Hassan.

The officer had been assassinated in Baladweyne, a town located around 335kms to the north of Mogadishu.