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...... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa..." movement, including three leaders, and wounding 98 others in a military operation in the Lower Shabelle region, south of the capital, Mogadishu, on Thursday.
"Among the dead were three field commanders, who are the frontline official in Lower Shabelle region, the perpetrator of the attacks, and the naval operations official, and they were targeted while they were gathering there," Deputy Information Minister Abd al-Rahman Yusuf said at a presser in Mogadishu.
Yusuf added that the army also destroyed vehicles and confiscated combat equipment of the rebels, during the military operation that targeted the villages of "Tawakul" and "Ghars Jerid" in the city of Janali in the southwestern state.