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At least four people were killed on Thursday when heavily armed fighters from the Al-Shabaab jihadist group raided a town near Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, police said. The attack came with the troubled country in the grip of an escalating political crisis pitting the president against the prime minister. The attackers, armed with machine guns and RPG rocket-launchers, raided the town of Balcad, about 30 kilometres (18 miles) north of Mogadishu, police and witnesses said. Four people, including two members of the security forces, were killed and eight others wounded, police officer Abdullahi M…
