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| Somalia: Government soldiers killed in bomb attack |
| 2008-01-27 |
| (SomaliNet) A bomb exploded Saturday near the palace of President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed in Mogadishu, killing three Somalis including a policeman, witnesses said, AFP reports. The explosion struck a police vehicle, killing the officer and two civilians who were walking nearby, said Farah Hasan Sahal, an eyewitness. Also Saturday, a landmine hit an African Union (AU) peacekeepers convoy near the Mogadishu port in the south of the city. "We donÂ’t have details yet, but a landmine hit one of our vehicles near the sea port and some of our forces were injured," said Bahuko Baridgye, spokesman of the AU force. Baridgye told AFP that the injured soldiers were Ugandans, who alongside Burundian troops currently make up the AU force in Somalia which is ultimately to number around 8,000 soldiers. |
| Posted by:Steve White |