location: Baidoa
notes: Defusal: ISWA forces, in the morning of 17/12, discovered and disabled an IED that was planted in Baidoa's former livestock market in Berdale neighbourhood. A Quranic school teacher was arrested and accused of planting the IED in the area with the aim of targeting an ISWA military checkpoint.
target_text: location: Baidoa, fatalities: 0