SOMALIA, Kismayo: In a handout photograph taken 05 October and released by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team 06 October, unexploded ordinance including rocket propelled grenades and mortar shells left behind by the Al-Qaeda-affilated extremist group Al Shabaab are destroyed by a controlled detonation carried out by a combat engineering team serving with the Kenyan Contingent of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) in the southern Somali port city of Kismayo. The last bastion of the once feared Al Shabaab group, Kismayo fell after troops of the Somali National Army (SNA) and Ras Kimboni Brigade supported by Kenyan AMISOM forces entered the port city on 02 October following a two month operation across southern Somalia which saw the liberation of villages and centres along a distance of 120km from Afmadow to Kismayo. AU-UN IST PHOTO / STUART PRICE.
AMISOM Public Information
2012-10-05 13:00:41
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