Ugandan army has said that its soldiers working as part of peacekeeping forces in Somalia have killed 189 al-Shabab fighters in an attack on one of their camps.
The Ugandan People’s Defence Force (UPDF) said in a statement that its soldiers raided al-Shabab hideouts on Friday in the villages of Sigaale, Adimole and Kayitoy, 100km southwest of the capital Mogadishu.
According to the spokesman for Uganda’s army, Lieutenant Colonel Deo Akiiki, the military operation involved ground and aerial assaults.
A statement from the Ugandan Army said that during the operation “a large number of military hardware and items used by the militants were also destroyed.”
There was no immediate comment from al-Shabab on the attack. This operation comes a week after the United States military said it had completed the withdrawal of troops from Somalia.
