Vehicle carrying supplies for al-Shabaab militants seized in central Somalia

Mogadishu - Reports from Somalia's central provinces indicate that security forces from the Galmudug administration have seized a vehicle carrying supplies for al-Shabaab fighters.

The reports added that the car moved from the city of Galkayo, the capital of Mudug province, and that security forces arrested people on board who were trying to transport fuel and food to the fighters.

A security official in Mudug province told the media that they had begun investigations into the arrested people and vowed to refer them to the judiciary.

For two years, Somali government forces and allied militias have surrounded al-Shabaab fighters in areas of the central Mudug and Galgdood regions and attempts to transport supplies to the fighters have repeatedly been thwarted.