6 May 2017: Al-Shabaab militants ordered residents of tiny Quar’a Madobe village, who were going about their business, to assemble. Dozens gathered to see the militants holding two men in civilian clothes at gunpoint. “They brought the men in front of a tea restaurant, and told the residents they were captured enemy soldiers,” said a witness who spoke to the Somali service. One militant then recited a Quranic verse, he said, and two others used large knives to slice off the men’s heads, as those watching gasped and screamed. A Somali National Army colonel identified the men as Mowlid Hussein and Ahmed Ya’qub, and said they were driving to the town of Jowhar to tend to family emergencies when Al-Shabaab intercepted their vehicle. The colonel said they were “off duty, uniformed and unarmed.” (Source: Voa News, 15/5/2017)