The Al-Qaeda-proxy Al-shabaab militants in Somalia have raided SOS Children’s hospital in the capital Mogadishu and looted 25 plastic containers of blood from the blood reservation department of the hospital which serves for mothers and children, a nurse at the hospital confirmed here on Wednesday.
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The Nurse who demanded anonymity because of fears for her safety told AHN that heavily armed militants in a Toyota track raided the hospital late Tuesday and looted the reserved blood.
“In Somalia looting properties was something very common, but to me looting of blood from a hospital Bank was a very surprising experience—we were really shocked by the unprecedented incident” the anonymous nurse noted.
The nurse said that after the incident some ailing women and children were removed from the hospital by their relatives for fear that the militants may take over the whole hospital which is located on the northern edge of the capital where the Somali government forces have not yet reached.
Sources close to the extremist group indicate that over hundred militants including top militia commanders were wounded in heavy fighting last week during battles around Mogadishu.
Al-shabaab’s spokesman for military affairs Sheik Abdi Aziz Abu Musab, whose real name is Artan Mohamed , and militant radio reporterIsmail Salad Guled, who was responsible for the killing of Somali journalists, are among the seriously wounded militants.
The sources say that the militants were retreated from Mogadishu and are now being treated at a mobile hospital built in the Farm of former UAE King Sheik Zayid Bin Sultan Al Nahyan in the Lower Shabelle region.
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