location: Baidoa
notes: A moderate, vocal al-Shabaab cleric was shot and killed by unidentified gunmen in Berdaale neighbourhood in Baidoa shortly after the dusk prayer on 18/01. The motive is unknown and the perpetrators escaped. Following the attack security forces conducted an operation and arrest 150 possible suspects.
target_text: location: Baidoa, fatalities: 1