In a handout photograph released by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team 03 October, an improvised explosive device (IED) is destroyed by a controlled explosion after a team of engineers serving with the Kenyan Contingent of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) found the device planted in the perimeter wall next at the entrance of a former police station in the southern Somali port city of Kismayo, after the Al-Qaeda-affiliated extremist group Al Shabaab withdrew from the city on 02 October after AMISOM troops, Somali National Army (SNA) forces and the pro-government Ras Kimboni Brigade militia entered and captured Kismayo without a fight. AU-UN IST PHOTO / STUART PRICE.
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