Al-Shabaab Leader Linked to al-Qaeda Dies in South Somalia
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A senior leader of al-Shabaab accused by the United Nations Security Council of having links to al-Qaeda has died at the age of 73 after a long illness, the Somali group said.
Hassan Abdullah Hersi al-Turki died Wednesday in the southern Somali town of Hargeysa Yarey, Sheikh Ali Mohamud Rageh, a spokesman for the Islamist militants, said in a statement Thursday on the pro-al-Shabaab Radio Andalus monitored in the capital, Mogadishu. Rageh didn’t give any details on al-Turki’s illness.