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UAE, Bahraini Soldiers Killed in Terrorist Attack in Somalia, Defense Ministry Says

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CAIRO (Sputnik) - The Somalia-based radical Islamist group al-Shabaab*, which has close ties to the international terrorist organization al-Qaeda*, has been waging an armed insurgency against the central government of Somalia since the mid-2000s.
Three UAE soldiers and one Bahraini officer were killed and two others were injured in a terrorist attack in Somalia, the UAE Defense Ministry said.

"The Ministry of Defense reports that three members of the Emirati armed forces and an officer from the Bahrain Defense Force were killed and two others were wounded in a terrorist attack in the brotherly Republic of Somalia," the ministry said in a statement.

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The statement added that the soldiers died while carrying out their mission to train the Somali military.
* al-Shabaab and al-Qaeda are terrorists groups banned in Russia and many other countries.
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