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Al Shabab Attacks Intelligence Prison In Mogadishu With Car Bombs; 12 Dead

By Omar Nor, Mogadishu-Somalia
Somalia Al Shabab Attacks Intelligence Prison In Mogadishu With Car Bombs; 12 Dead
SEP 1, 2014 LISTEN

MOGADISHU, Somalia (ModernGhana) - On Sunday noon at around 12am, heavily armed Al shabab militants attacked a highly protected Somali Intelligence prison in Mogadishu, killing 12 people, wounding more than 15 others, spokesman and witness said.

Hassan Abdi, a witness said a car bomb was detonated at the entrance of an underground Godka Jilacow prison run by the National Intelligence in the heart of Mogadishu and was followed by a gun raid by militants disguised in national army uniforms.

"I never heard such a huge and deafening blast," said Abdi. "It jolted the entire village, and everybody thought [the] house which we live in was targeted."

In a press conference at the complex, Mohamed Yusuf Osman, the spokesman of Somali national security ministry said: "The security guards of Godka Jilacow prison managed to fend off the attackers and they killed 7 Al shabab fighters during the raid on the prison."

He stated that 7 Al shabab attackers, 3 security force members and 2 civilian died in the attack that was carried out by armed Al shabab militants who attacked the prison with a car packed with explosives followed by gunfire.

In the after math of the attack, Bullet riddled of 7 Dead bodies dressed in military uniforms said to be Al Shabab attackers were displayed to the journalist outside the raided jail by the police.

Dozens of Al Shabab members and other inmates are being held in the prison which is heavily protected by troops belonging to Somali National Intelligence agency.

Al Shabab claimed responsibility for the attack according to Sheikh Abdiaziz Abu Musab, the group's military operation spokesman who said they killed more than 15 security force members during the attack.

On Saturday, Al Shabab lost two key towns in south to Somali and AMISOM troops following a long-waited "operation of Indian ocean" that the UN-backed federal govt wants to wipe out Al Shabab from the whole country before the end of 2014.

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