[Al Arabiya Latest] Suspected Islamist insurgents stormed a United Nations compound overnight in southern Somalia, witnesses said on Monday, but U.N. guards fought back and killed three of the attackers in a gun battle.One U.N. official in Wajid, 70 km (miles) northwest of Baidoa, said about 10 heavily armed men attacked them overnight. The compound is used for storing humanitarian aid. "After several minutes shooting our security guards repulsed the attackers and killed three of them," the U.N. official told Reuters.
One of the U.N. security guards was injured, he added. Another U.N. official said nine aid workers staying in Wajid had been evacuated to Nairobi in neighboring Kenya.