New agencies reported on a number of heavily armed Al-shabab insurgents have launched hit and run attack on a base in Luq on Tuesday but Somali soldiers fought back the militants and managed to maintain the control of the area.
Witnesses said that the battle flared up after the rebels have launched an ambush attack on a base at Luq bridge which is controlled by TFG and Ethiopian troops where face-to face fighting started and continued for hours.
Both sides exchanged heavy gunfire, including mortars and machine guns, forcing locals to flee from their houses. Somali troops and their allied Ethiopians inflicted heavy losses upon the attacking Al-shabab rebels during the combat.
The Somali Armed Forces have said that it killed 37 Al Shabab militants in the Middle Shabelle region amid the ongoing military operations to flush out the extremists in the southern part of the country.
The government forces have intensified security operations against the Al Qaeda allied terrorist group as the country prepares to hold presidential and parliamentary elections within 60 days.
The terror group which has been fighting to overthrow the government has vowed to disrupt the elections.
Al-Shabab has been designated as a terrorist organization by Australia, Canada, Malaysia, the United Arab Emirates, the UK and the US.
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