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Somali police ambush kills 17 Islamist rebels:police
Somali police said they ambushed and shot dead 17 fighters of the militant Al Shabaab insurgent movement on Friday during an attempted attack on a senior official in Mogadishu.
Mogadishu: Somali police said they ambushed and shot dead 17 fighters of the militant Al Shabaab insurgent movement on Friday during an attempted attack on a senior official in Mogadishu.
Most of the bodies were left lying in the street where they fell, Somali police spokesman Abdullahi Hassan Barise told reporters.
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