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WORLD / Africa
5 Somalis killed in violence, 9 hurt
(AP)
Updated: 2007-08-27 10:23
MOGADISHU, Somalia -- Bombings and grenade attacks killed two schoolboys
and three other people in Somalia's capital on Sunday, officials said.
Nine people were wounded.
A?Somali infant injured in a grenade attack against security forces is
brought to Medina Hospital in capital city of Mogadishu Sunday, Aug. 26,
2007. [Xinhua]
Police blamed Islamist insurgents for the attacks.
The two teenagers died in a blast in south Mogadishu near a school
attended by hundreds of children, the school's director Mohamed Ahmed
Farah said. Sunday is a school day in the majority Muslim Horn of Africa
nation, where government troops and their Ethiopian allies are fighting
Islamic insurgents who vowed to conduct an insurgency after they were
ousted by an Ethiopian-led invasion in December.
"They plant bombs among the civilians," police spokesman Col. Abdi Wahid
said of the insurgents, calling the tactic "barbaric."
A man wounded in the blast died at a hospital.
A grenade attack on police officers killed a civilian and wounded four
people, three of them police, in a northeastern neighborhood of Mogadishu
where the Islamists enjoy strong support, Wahid said.
Another grenade aimed at police near the city's main market killed one
person and wounded five, police spokesman Col. Abdi Shino said. Police
arrested eight people, mainly youths, at a nearby Internet cafe in
connection with the attack.
Human rights groups have accused all sides of regularly killing and
injuring civilians. Thousands have been killed this year.
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