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About 17 killed in Somalia conflict: elders
September 21 2009 at 09:48AM Shaaficiyah Media
At least 17 people, mainly combatants, were
killed in fighting between Islamist insurgents and government
forces in western Somalia, elders said on Monday.
The fighting broke out late Sunday when fighters
from the Shebab, an al-Qaeda-inspired group that controls
much of southern Somalia, attempted to capture the town of
Yet on the border with Ethiopia.
"We are getting that 17 people, mainly
combatants, died in the fighting and some vehicles were destroyed,"
Ali Moalim Kerow, an elder in the nearby town of Rabdhure,
told AFP.- AFP
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