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June 26, 2023
The attackers also burned houses and destroyed property.
Police also said a 60-year-old man was bound with a rope and his throat slit, his house was burnt with all belongings, three others were killed in a similar manner while a fifth victim was shot.
Resident Hassan Abdul said women were locked in the houses and the men ordered out, where they were tied with ropes and butchered.
He explained that a secondary school student was among the five people killed, adding that all those killed were slashed and some of them had been beheaded.
Another resident, Ismail Hussein, said the fighters stole food supplies before leaving, firing their arms into the air.
The Police had described the incident as a terrorist attack, a phrase they typically use to refer to incursions by Somalia’s al-Shabab group.