| The wetern-installed Somali government troops and their Ethiopian allies sprayed bystanders with gunfire in response to two separate bomb attacks, killing at least 42 people Friday, witnesses and a nurse said. The killings occurred a day before the Ethiopian-installed president and his estranged prime minister are to hold talks amid a protracted power struggle between them that has complicated efforts to end Somalia's expanding insurgency. One man said Somali government forces opened fire after two explosions went off near the president's convoy as it was traveling to Mogadishu airport. In a separate incident, a witness said Ethiopian soldiers opened fire indiscriminately on the road between the capital, Mogadishu, and Afgoye after roadside bombs targeted their convoy. Witness Ali Jama said he counted 35 dead. A woman who fled the scene with her two children said there were more than 30 bodies in the street. |