A gun battle between Somalia's security forces and Islamist group Al Shabaa...
A Somali policeman holds position as al-Shabaab militia storms a government building in Mogadishu, Somalia March 23, 2019. REUTERS/Feisal Omar
MOGADISHU - A gun battle between Somalia’s security forces and Islamist group Al Shabaab’s fighters in the capital Mogadishu on Saturday has ended, leaving 15 people dead, police said. Fighting broke out at a building housing the country’s labor and works ministries after Al Shabaab militants detonated a car bomb.
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