MOGADISHU (Halbeeg News) – Security agencies have stepped up security surveillance in the Horn of African region following intelligence reports that indicated imminent attacks.
Sources privy to the alert said that Al-Shabaab, which has an active cell in several countries in the region, had threatened “to cause massive destruction in the cities.”
The agencies in the region are working to identify the hotspot areas.
Sources say the group is feared to carry out terror attacks in major cities in the region in the forthcoming days.
Al-Shabaab is likely to remain a formidable force inside Somalia and a menace outside as its fighters adopted carrying out deadly bombings in and outside Somalia.
Last Saturday, two heinous car bombing orchestrated by the group killed over dozen people in Mogadishu.
The blasts occurred at a checkpoint near Somali presidential palace.
Among those killed in the attack was well known Somali journalist, Awil Dahir Salad, who was working with a Somali Television based in UK.
The group had previously attacked several major towns in the region including Kampala and Nairobi.
In 2010, in bomb attacks in Uganda’s capital, Kampala claimed lives of 74 people and injured more others.
Westgate and Garissa attacks in Kenya which happened in 2013 and 2015 respectively killed over 200 people.
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