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Suspected Al-Shabaab Militant Killed with Two Children in Mogadishu IED Explosion

A suspected Al-Shabaab militant died when an improvised explosive device (IED) he was assembling in a Mogadishu house exploded.

At the time of the incident, the man was in the company of a woman suspected to be his wife and three children.

The woman escaped with minor injuries.

Currently, she is in police custody helping them with investigations.

However, two of the children were not so lucky. They lost their lives together with the suspected Al-Shabaab militant.

FTL Somalia

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