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Al-Shabaab gunmen and a suicide car bomb attack struck a religious center in central Somalia on Monday, killing a cleric and at least 14 of his followers, an official said. police.
The militant Islamist group accused the cleric of insulting the Prophet Mohamed, which he denied.
The group was forced to leave Mogadishu in 2011 in most towns and villages, but it maintains a strong presence outside the capital and launches frequent bombings. other attacks during a campaign to overthrow the federal government.
"The (security) operation is now complete. Al-Shabaab killed 15 people, including the cleric, his wife, his supporters and his guards.
"Three militants who stormed the center were also shot dead," said a telephone officer to Captain Nur Mohamed, a police officer in Reuters, Galkayo [19659005] The group takes responsibility for the attack. Attacks and carries the death toll to 26.
Soldiers who responded to the first attack also died while they were trying to remove a second car bomb.
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"We killed 26 people, including the center's owner, his supporters, his bodyguards and his colleagues. soldiers, "said Abdiasis Musab, spokesman for the military operation of Al-Shabaab,
" The owner of the center was the man who mistreated the prophet. have died attempting to drive a second car bomb left by the armed mujahideen. "
Galkayo residents and a regional official said that Abdiweli may have also been targeted because his center mainly hosts young people who play music and dance 19659005] In 2017, Al Shabaab declared that the cleric had insulted the Prophet, although an accusation denied at the time by Abdiweli
Abdirashid Hashi, governor of the region from Mudug, told Reuters that al-Shabaab had threatened him many times.
A Galkayo elder said that Abdiweli had offered free boarding to former pirates, street boys and unemployed men, who became his supporters.
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"He used to say to teenagers," If you were a pirate or a bandit, stop and come to dance, eat, eat and eat. sleep here. God will forgive your sins.
"Some other ignorant teenagers thought he was as holy as he, and so joined," told Reuters an elder of the country, Ismail Abdirahman.
"We understood that there was something wrong, but we could not take it to court because the man was well armed."
Al Shabaab is struggling to establish its own settlement on the basis of a harsh interpretation of Islamic law.
The group controls small sections of the Mudug area, but does not include Galkayo.
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