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Somali terror group al-Shabaab has killed one occupant of a UN helicopter and taken five others hostage. The plane had to make an emergency landing in an area controlled by the terrorist group. Bloomberg reports this, on the authority of a regional Minister of Homeland Security.
The UN helicopter had soldiers and medical personnel on board. The aircraft was on an evacuation mission but had to land in the Galguduud region, in central Somalia, after a technical problem. “Two of the eight occupants, one of whom was a Somali citizen, were able to flee with guns. But another person who tried to flee was killed by the militants,” said Mohamed Abdi Adan, the region’s minister of internal security. “The militants took the remaining individuals hostage after the helicopter crashed.”
Al-Shabaab has been fighting the Somali government since 2006 and still controls several strongholds in the center and south of the country.