Read audioBy Abdi SheikhMOGADISHU, Sept 3 (Reuters) – Al Shabaab militants killed at least 18 civilians and destroyed trucks laden with relief food in an overnight attack in Somalia’s central region, residents and a state news agency said on Saturday. “Al Shabaab killed 18 civilians and burnt…several trucks of relief food heading to Mahas town last night,” Farah Aden, a local elder told Reuters by phone. Last month more than 20 people were killed in an attack in which al Shabaab fighters stormed the Hayat Hotel in Mogadishu, triggering a 30-hour battle as government troops sought to end the siege and free hostages. “Al Shabaab is doing all these things in order to make us surrender. But we shall never surrender to al Shabaab as long as there is soul in us.

Source: Ethiopian News September 03, 2022 14:56 UTC