Burco, Somaliland, June 12, 2010 (SL Times) – Somaliland security forces and police raided a house in the city of Buroa in which terror suspects were hiding. According to Somaliland Police Commander, Gen. Muhammad Saqadhi Dubad, eleven people (7 men and 4 women) were arrested in the raid. One member of Somaliland security forces was killed during the raid and two police officers were wounded. Somaliland security forces found a cache of weapons, ammunitions and bomb-making materials in the house.
Police and security forces raided the house after getting a tip from citizens about suspicious activities taking place in that house.
Somaliland’s security forces said that they had been tracking the activities of the people in the house for some time and wanted to arrest them but the terrorists opened fire killing one security member. Somaliland police divulged that the terrorists are linked to the Mogadishu-based al-Shabaab (an al-Qaida affiliated Somali organization) and were planning to create mayhem in order to disrupt Somaliland’s presidential election scheduled for June 26th.
































 

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