Somalia: 100 Shabab Militants Killed in Military Operation

Somalia's army soldiers and peacekeepers from the African Union Mission in Somalia enter the town of Barawe during the second phase of Operation Indian Ocean October 6, 2014. (Reuters)

Somalia’s government said Saturday that a military operation in the country’s Lower and Middle Shabelle and Hiran regions killed more than 100 extremist al-Qaeda linked al-Shabab militants.

Somalia’s deputy information minister Abdirahman Yusuf Omar Adala said the operation took place on the outskirts of the village of El-Dhere at the border of the Lower and Middle Shabelle regions and in the central province of Hiran, killing more than 100 al-Shabab fighters, including 10 “ringleaders.”