Baidoa (Sunatimes) The Al-Shabaab militia in Baidoa town of Somalia has for the first time publicly spoken on the recent killing of an ICRC staff Abdisalam Feleg who was killed in the area a week ago.

Area rebel leader only identified as Adan said they have already arrested four suspects over the assassination of the aid worker.

He said the suspects will soon be arraigned before court to answer the charges against them.

Unknown assailants have shot aid worker Abdisalam Feleg several times on the head and chest before fleeing the area immediately.

The incident has heightened tension between Al-Shabaab rebels and local clan in the area in and around Baidoa, Bay region of Somalia.

Local clan elders ordered the militia group to surrender to them the assailant for execution or face the same punishment, in a literal application of Al-Shabaab’s Sharia eye-for-eye laws in their hands.

Elders demanded that the murderer who is suspected to be among the rebel fighters be killed for his actions but reluctant militant group leaders differed on the killing of their fighter.

Local youths from the clan of the deceased aid worker Abdisalam Feleg in Habare village immediately started arming themselves in retaliations.

By Fahad Abukar