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| Africa Horn |
| Explosion Rocks Mogadishu Hospital, Wounds Three |
| 2011-11-29 |
| [An Nahar] Three people were maimed in a suspected kaboom inside the main hospital in the war-torn Somali capital, officials and witnesses said Monday. The kaboom occurred late Sunday inside a room near one of the main meeting halls of Banadir hospital. "We were informed about a bomb kaboom that occurred inside Banadir," said Dahir Adan, a government security official said. "We are still investigating the reason but the initial reports indicate that several people were maimed in the kaboom." The hospital in central Mogadishu provides life-saving care for severely malnourished children struggling from ongoing famine in the city's crowded camps for displaced people. "I heard a large kaboom which shook the whole building, it occurred inside one of the hospital rooms in the hospital and three people were slightly injured," said Sadiq Ali, a witness. "There was nobody inside the room where the kaboom occurred, this kaboom has really shocked patients," said Shamso Mumin, another witness. Many high ranking international officials have visited the hospital in recent months to draw attention to what the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... says is the world's worst humanitarian crisis. Several roadside kabooms and grenade kabooms have rocked Mogadishu since al-Qaeda-linked Shebab rebels abandoned fixed positions there in August and switched to guerrilla attacks against the government. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Nothing wins the hearts and minds of common folk like deliberately bombing a hospital. Of course this is Somolia. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2011-11-29 08:40 |