[dehai-news] (GO) 56 Killed, 80 Wounded in Somalia Violence


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From: Yemane Natnael (yemane_natnael@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Aug 16 2008 - 12:01:42 EDT


                                              
                              

                                              
                              

                                        
                                                                    
                                                                        
                                                                    
                                                                          
                                                                      
                                                                            
                                                                        
                                                                              
                                                                        56 killed, 80 wounded in Somalia violence

Aug 16, 2008

        
        MOGADISHU, Somalia Aug 16 (Garowe Online) - M
        
        ore
than 50 people were killed in Somalia's capital Mogadishu since
Thursday in some of the worst violence in weeks, Radio Garowe reported.

        
        Fighting
sparked Thursday afternoon along a key road that connects Mogadishu's
Aden Adde International Airport and the Villa Somalia presidential
palace after suspected insurgents attacked government security forces.

        
        The road
was closed as President Abdullahi Yusuf and Prime Minister Nur "Adde"
Hassan Hussein traveled to the airport on their way to Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia, where the African Union plans to mediate between the two
leaders.

        
        One
Ethiopian soldier was killed in the initial blast. Four civilians were
killed when the Ethiopian soldiers opened gunfire afterwards, according
to witnesses.

        
        In a
separate attack, two Ethiopian soldiers and three civilians were killed
when a hidden landmine exploded, destroying an army vehicle and a
civilian car near Arbiska area.

        
        Ethiopian
troops traveling in the southern outskirts of Mogadishu came under
attack Friday afternoon, when at least three explosions targeted the
army convoy.

        
        The
soldiers opened gunfire indiscriminately on two buses full of
civilians, killing at least 40 people. Witnesses confirmed to Radio
Garowe that "many women and children" were among the dead.

        
        "We were busy burying the dead this morning [Saturday]," said a man who did not want to be named.

        
        Medical
sources at hospitals in Afgoye and Daynile said 30 and 50 wounded
people were admitted since Thursday to the two hospitals, respectively.

        
        Hundreds of
thousands of civilians fled Mogadishu violence and reside in meager
conditions along the road that connects the capital to the agricultural
town of Afgoye, 30km to the south.

        
        Somalia's
interim government, backed by Ethiopian troops, is violently opposed by
Islamist rebels who have vowed to wage a bloody insurgency until
foreign troops are expelled from Somali soil.

http://www.garoweonline.com/artman2/publish/Somalia_27/56_killed_80_wounded_in_Somalia_violence.shtml

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