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Al-Shabaab executes two men for spying

Storyline:National News

Al-Shabab executed two men they accused of spying for the Somali government in public, on Saturday evening.

Hundreds watched as a firing squad arranged by the al-Shabab group shot the pair in Aw-Dhegle town.

Al-Shabab officials said the men had been found guilty of working for Somali government and foreign organizations.

The death sentence was announced and the men were shot almost immediately by 10 masked men.

Al-Shabab official said publicly before the execution that the men had admitted spying for Somali authorities.

According to local eyewitnesses the men were accused of spying for the Somali government.

Many young men are now being held in Al Shabab prisons, most of them are suspected of spying for foreign and Somali governments.

According to many analysts a vicious battle is being fought between Al-Shabab and  Western countries on the intelligence side, which has at times resulted in the assassinations of Al-Shabab commanders by drone strikes, while at the same time Al-Shabab has been executing men whom they say are spies who “are the eyes on the ground for the enemy”.