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Mogadishu explosions target solar-powered street lights
MOGADISHU -- Explosions hit Mogadishu leaving several solar powered street lights destroyed on Monday, Garowe Online reports.
What idiot came up with putting solar powered street lights in Mog? Must have been a western NGO idiot...
Three of nearly dozens of street lights lined along Mogadishu’s 30th Street, one of the city’s busiest roads, were destroyed. Local sources said "no one was targeted" as the explosive devices were detonated at recently installed street lights in Mogadishu.

“I heard very big blasts after Fajr [morning] prayer and they rocked in Al Baraka village of Hodon district, we went out to see what happened but we saw the wreckage of the solar powered street lights” witnesses reported.

Nobody claimed its responsibility but Banadir regional administration accused Al Shabaab extremists of detonating the blasts. A spokesman for Banadir regional administration said: “Al Shabaab will take the explosion’s responsibility because they so far targeted those street lights and they oppose their installation for public safety."

The targeted road connects four districts in Mogadishu and local residents welcomed the installation of solar powered street lights to increase public safety and businesses stay open late.
Posted by: Steve White 2013-07-17
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