Two people died and others were hospitalised after drinking water from a well that had been poisoned by Al-Shabab terrorists in El-Jiqow village under Mahas district, on Thursday, Mumin Mohamed, Mahas district commissioner told Somali National Television.
The victims were identified as Saney Abiikar Adan and Mohamed Uul Nor. At the same time, five others also fell ill from the contaminated water and were treated at the Mahaas district hospital.
The water well in El Jiqow, which Al-Shabab blew up in mid of September, has been repaired by residents with the federal government's support.
One of the residents accused Al-Shabab militants of poisoning the water well while the residents were not around the well area.
Earlier this month, the Al-Shabab militants killed at least 22 civilians after they attacked a convoy carrying food to Mahas district in Hiiraan. The attack occurred on the road between the region's capital, Beledwayne, and the Mahas district.
Somalia's military says an offensive in the central Hiran region has captured 20 villages occupied by the Islamist militant group Al-Shabab since the beginning of the ongoing new offensive against Al-Shabab.
Al-Shabab regularly destroys homes and wells when pushed out of an area as part of it's scorched earth tactic.
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