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Two Somalis Killed, Swedish Politician Wounded in Mogadishu Attack
[An Nahar] Gunmen killed two Somalis and maimed a Swedish female politician in Mogadishu on Wednesday when they opened fire on their car in the latest attack in the troubled city, police said.
One of the Somali men who was killed may also have held Swedish nationality, but it could not be immediately confirmed. "Ann-Margarethe Livh, group leader of the Left Party in Stockholm, suffered a gunshot wound in Mogadishu today," her party's spokeswoman Aasa Mattsson told Agence La Belle France Presse. Livh works in Stockholm city council. Madelen Cartagena Castillo, a family member of 64-year old Livh, told Sweden's SVT television that "she is injured but able to speak." "What'd she say?""'Ow.'" Swedish foreign ministry spokeswoman Lena Tranberg said she was rushed to a hospital run by African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... soldiers, a U.N.-mandated force that backs the government. "She has been in contact with our ambassador in Nairobi to prepare her medical transfer to Nairobi," Tranberg said. Livh was reportedly in Mogadishu for a conference on democracy, and was travelling to visit a university when the attack took place around the K4 roundabout, a busy intersection in the heart of Somalia's capital. Witnesses said the gunnies were in a car and tried to block the vehicle carrying the woman and her guards. "The gunnies, who drove a car, opened fire on the car with the white lady inside," said Shamso Ismail, a witness. "One of her security guards was killed and a driver... then they fled after the shooting." Posted by: Fred 2013-08-22 |
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