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Suicide Bomber Kills 2 Soldiers in Mogadishu
[An Nahar] A jacket wallah went kaboom!" Tuesday in central Mogadishu after being placed in durance vile, killing two soldiers and wounding at least four civilians, a security official said."A man was jugged by soldiers driving a car we believed was full of explosives, but when the soldiers told the driver to open the car, he detonated explosives on his body," said government security official Abdi Hashi. "It killed two soldiers and the bomber died too, while the kaboom maimed four civilians." No group immediately grabbed credit for the attack, the latest in a string of blasts including roadside kabooms and grenade kabooms that have rocked the Somali capital in recent weeks. The war-torn city has seen an increase in such attacks since the al-Qaeda linked Shebab abandoned fixed positions there in August and switched to guerrilla tactics against the Western-backed government. Witnesses said several civilians were maimed in the blast, which took place near the central K4 roundabout. In October, a Shebab suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden truck, killing at least 82 and wounding many more, the bloodiest such attack in the group's history. The hardline faceless myrmidons control large parts of southern Somalia but are facing increasing pressure from regional armies and government forces. Kenyan troops are battling the rebels in the far south, Ethiopia forces are in the south and west, while Ugandan and Burundian soldiers in the African Union force in Mogadishu are supporting government efforts. Posted by: Fred 2011-12-07 |
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