The ENDF said in a press release that the fighters were killed in Rabdhure town in southwestern Somalia after they tried to attack an ENDF contingent that was present in that area.<\/p>\n
The ENDF disclosed the militant group had tried to use 12 suicide bombers and three explosives-laden vehicles in the failed attack.<\/p>\n
The Ethiopian army has previously foiled multiple al-Shabab attempts to infiltrate eastern Ethiopia to carry out cross-border attacks, read the statement.<\/p>\n
Al-Shabab is a militant Islamic rebel group mainly operating in conflict-wracked Somalia but has also been implicated in terrorist attacks in several other East African countries.<\/p>\n
Ethiopia has several thousand troops in Somalia as part of the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) tasked with countering the al-Shabab threat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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