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Blast kills five women in Mogadishu |
2007-06-27 |
![]() Businesswoman Hawa Jama described an “ugly scene”. “I could not count the dead, I just glanced at once and ran away for my life,” she told Reuters. The latest blast came after heavy clashes overnight in the north and south of the city between suspected Islamist fighters, police and Ethiopian troops. A senior policeman in the north said assailants armed with machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades and artillery mounted on trucks attacked police in Horuwa, an Islamist stronghold. |
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