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| Two boys killed in Mog protest |
| 2011-06-11 |
| MOGADISHU: Two boys were shot dead in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Friday during a second day of protests against a deal to extend the mandates of the country’s president and parliament, residents said. Hundreds of supporters of the prime minister, who must resign under the terms of the deal, marched through the city’s rubble-strewn streets chanting “long live Prime Minister (Mohamed Abdullahi) Mohamed.” The two boys died when police loyal to the speaker of parliament shot at the demonstrators, starting a gunfight with soldiers loyal to President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed and his government, witnesses said. About a dozen other demonstrators were wounded. “We were just walking and chanting when police guarding the Hotel Muna opened fire on us,” Nadifa Ali told Reuters. "We wuzn't doin' nuttin', see, and da coppers just emptied dier rods at us!" “Two young boys died on the spot and others were injured. Soon a military vehicle came and fired on the police guarding the hotel,” she said. A Reuters photographer said the protesters then set the hotel ablaze. |
| Posted by:Steve White |