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Al-Shabab attack kills at least 12 people in Somali city

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By OMAR FARUK
Associated Press

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Officials and witnesses say at least 12 people are dead after extremist fighters targeted a local government headquarters in the capital of Somalia’s Hiran region, which has been the center of a recent mobilization against the rebels. The Somalia-based al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the attack in Beledweyne. Somalia’s government earlier on Monday announced that it and international partners had killed a top al-Shabab leader over the weekend. The Hiran governor survived the attack and told The Associated Press that the health minister of Hirshabelle state and the deputy governor of Hiran in charge of finance were among those killed on Monday.

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