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Mogadishu blast kills 13, mostly women
Reuters Africa ^ | Sunday, August 3, 2008 | Abdi Sheikh (with Ibrahim Mohamed, ed by Robert Hart)
Posted on August 6, 2008 10:52:39 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
A roadside explosion in Mogadishu on Sunday killed at least 13 people, most of them women who were sweeping a street, witnesses said.
Residents said a remotely detonated device exploded in Waberi district along a main road leading to the presidential palace. Nearly 50 people were wounded...
Four people died in the emergency room at the main Madina hospital...
Insurgents have launched near-daily attacks on the transitional administration and its Ethiopian military allies. Somalia has not had a functioning central government since 1991.
On Friday a roadside bomb killed a Ugandan member of a small African Union peacekeeping force based in the capital.
Violence in the Horn of Africa nation has killed more than 8,000 civilians and driven 1 million more from their homes since allied Somali-Ethiopian forces kicked a hard-line Islamist group out of Mogadishu early last year.
(Excerpt) Read more at africa.reuters.com ...