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Four Killed in Mogadishu Explosion
[An Nahar] Three Somali soldiers and a civilian were killed Friday when a roadside kaboom the officers picked up to detonate elsewhere went kaboom!inside their vehicle, officials and witnesses said. The soldiers picked up the device at a road intersection in Mogadishu's Bakara district and moments later it ripped apart their vehicle, also killing one civilian and injuring four others who were nearby. "Three soldiers and a woman who was passing by the area were killed and several others injured in the kaboom," Mohamed Ali, a government security official told Agence La Belle France Presse. Jama Ibrahim, a witness, said: "The pick-up truck was totally destroyed by the kaboom. It was driving off and suddenly there was a heavy kaboom and smoke." Several roadside kabooms and grenade kabooms have rocked the war-shattered Somali capital since the al-Qaeda-linked Shebab rebels abandoned their bases there in August and resorted to guerrilla attacks against the government. Posted by: Fred 2011-11-26 |
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