Dusamareb (Sunatimes) More than 43 bodies of dead Al-Shabaab militants who were killed on Tuesday morning during a gun-battle with Ahlu Sunna militias in central Somalia town of Dusamareb were buried today, ASWJ official claimed.

Dusamareb District Commissioner, Abdirahman Ali Geda-qorow, told Bar-kulan that ASWJ militias collected the bodies lying in and outside the town and were later buried in the area.

He said normalcy has now returned to the area, with their fighters keeping vigil to make sure that public lives are never disrupted again.

He further said that they lost only five combatants on their side during the yesterday fight in the area and were immediately laid to rest.

Earlier on Tuesday, ASWJ claimed to have killed more than 20 Al-Shabaab militants during the battle for Dusamareb, a strategic town in the central Somalia region of Galgadud controlling a key road linking south and central Somalia to the relatively calm northern part of the chaotic Horn of African country.

Few hours after the fight, Ahlu Sunna’s Guri’el district commissioner, Osman Isse Noor told Bar-kulan that several militants were killed after attacking Dusamareb town early on Tuesday morning, adding that they lost three of their fighters on their side.

He also claimed that they seized two vehicles from the militant group.

The Al-Qaeda linked Al-Shabaab militants on pickup trucks mounted with machine guns stormed the town at dawn on Tuesday, briefly seizing control of it before they were repelled.

Ahlu Sunna militias regained full control of the town after regrouping outside the town which had earlier fallen off their hand and engaged in retaliatory attacks forcing militants to retreat back.

Al-Shabaab militants reportedly made off with over seven privately owned vehicles which they took away from locals during their brief stay in the town before they were ousted by Ahlu Sunna fighters.

Although the exact number still remains unknown, reports say there have been heavy human casualties involving both combatants and civilians during the fight, with ASWJ claiming upper hand over Al-Shabaab in the fight.

Al-Shabaab militants have on several occasions attached Dusamareb, briefly taking control of it before fresh attacks from the Ahlu Sunna group rooted them out.