Somali National Army has on Wednesday taken control Baladul Amin location in lower Shabelle.
Commander of the Army Sector 12-April,Gen. Omar Aden Hassan told Somali National News Agency that this was a well planned military operation against Al-Shabaab militants hiding in a small villages in the region.
Al-Shabab, part of al-Qaeda, has a strong presence in many rural parts of Somalia and often stages attacks in the capital, Mogadishu, and elsewhere.
The African Union has a force of about 22,000 soldiers helping the Somali government fight al-Shabab.