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Somali security forces shot dead five Al Shabaab gunmen, who had killed three civilians and two soldiers during an attack on a hotel near the presidential residence in Mogadishu on Tuesday night, police said early on Wednesday. Al Shabaab, an Al Qaeda linked militant group, frequently launches bombing and gun raids in Mogadishu in a bid to topple Somalia’s UN-backed …

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