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| Mogadishu Mortar Attack Kills 3 Family Members |
| 2017-04-08 |
| [An Nahar] At least three people belonging to the same family were killed and three others maimed when mortar shells landed on their home in Mogadishu Friday, a security official and witnesses said. The shells struck the southern Mogadishu suburb of Danwadagta near a security checkpoint for the airport in the Somali capital. "Three civilians died and three others were maimed after mortar shells hit their house," said security official Abdi Muhidin. "Two of the dead were a mother and her daughter and all of the victims belong to the same family," said witness Awale Yasin. The attack is the second this week in Mogadishu after a boom-mobile at a restaurant left seven dead on Wednesday. In southern Somalia, a minibus hit a landmine on Thursday, killing 19 people in an area hotly contested between al- Shabaab gunnies and government and 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... troops. |
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