Normalcy returns to Mahaday town after police station attack

Relative calm has returned to Mahaday town in Middle Shabelle region after attack on a police station by Al-Shabaab fighters that left three people dead, witnesses said on Monday.

Mohamed Farah, A police said security situation is generally calm with isolated incidents of insecurity following last night’s attack when several suspected Al-Shabaab fighters stormed police station in the town

“Al-Shabaab is not controlling any area under the responsibility of Somali government. We have tried to secure the place against attacks,” Farah.

However, a local in the town sad that in the last night’s incident in which the police station was attacked, three people including a boy and two civilian women were killed.

The deputy district commissioner, Salah Hajji said it is too early in to display casualties caused by the attack.

We are investigating the matter, the group was defeated but we launched probe on the incident and immediately we finish our work, we will share it with the public,” said Hajji.

The militants have recently increased their attacks against  Somali forces in the country, which resulted in the loss of some towns although the militants mainly held those towns briefly.

Al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab, which once ruled much of Somalia, wants to topple the Western-backed government in Mogadishu and drive out AMISOM peacekeepers also made up of soldiers from Kenya, Djibouti, Uganda and other African nations.