SOMALIA: Ahlu suna- women planning suicide bomb captured

By: Malyun Ali
Mogadishu (RBC) Ahlu suna spokesman in Belet-hawo district Sheikh Mohamed Hussein al-Qadi said they have seized Al-Shabab trained women planning to carry our suicide attack in the district, RBC Radio reports.
“In the past few hours our forces backing by TFG forces made security tighten operation in the town and we have captured many criminals going to carry suicide explosion among them are women”, al-Qadi told RBC Radio.
He said that their forces were investigating to clarify the dozen of people arrested in the last operation.
Somalia government officials in Belet-hawo also confirmed that three of the detained persons were suspected females.
“We found that the extremists recently begun to send trained women to conduct suicide attacks and we are very cautious for that”, military source said.
The security in Belet-hawo town has been extremely tightened after Somalia government forces with the allied Ahlu suna militia took the control of the town from Al-Shabab rebels.
The defense minister of Somalia transitional federal government Abdulhakim Mahamud Haji Fiqi has visited Belet-hawo town this week in a bid to give confidence the move by the TFG forces and their allied militias.
Meanwhile, fierce battles between Al-Shabab and government forces renewed in some southern regions of Somalia including Gedo region.
RBC Radio