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| Africa Horn |
| Bomb kills Uganda peacekeeper in Mogadishu |
| 2008-09-18 |
| (SomaliNet) Being the second member of the contingent to be killed in the Somali capital in three days, a Ugandan peacekeeper was killed on Monday in a roadside bomb explosion in Mogadishu. Monday's incident took place in the southern Mogadishu neighbourhood of Afisiyone and came a day after another Ugandan member of the African Union force was killed in an attack by suspected Islamist insurgents on Saturday. ''We have so far lost two soldiers and four others have been injured,'' Amisom Forces spokesman Maj. Barigye Ba-hoku said from Mogadishu last evening. ''Our soldiers went to an observation post outside our defence positions when an explosive device planted by the roadside went off, killing one of our soldiers and wounding two others.'' Witnesses said the AU peacekeepers' vehicle was destroyed by the roadside bomb and several of the soldiers retrieved from the wreckage, before the area was sealed off. The explosives were hidden in sand dunes. As is the practice in the military the identities of the dead cannot be released until their relatives have been notified. Since March 2007, a total of eight African Union peacekeepers have been killed in Somalia. A Ugandan soldier serving with the African Union in Somalia was on August 1 killed by a roadside bomb in Mogadishu. The incident followed another similar attack in which three others were killed. ''Amisom once again condemns these acts of violence that undermine the efforts of attaining peace through dialogue,'' Maj. Ba-Hoku said. ''Amisom will not be deterred from fulfilling their mandate by these callous attacks.'' |
| Posted by:Fred |