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Date: Thu Sep 18 2008 - 19:49:32 EDT
http://www.somalinet.com/news/world/Somalia/16710
Somalia: Bomb kills Ugandan peacekeeper in Mogadishu
Wed. September 17, 2008 02:56 am.- By Bonny Apunyu. - Send this news article
(SomaliNet) Being the second member of the contingent to be killed in the
Somali capital in three days, a Ugandan peacekeeper was killed on Monday in
a roadside bomb explosion in Mogadishu.
Monday�s incident took place in the southern Mogadishu neighbourhood of
Afisiyone and came a day after another Ugandan member of the African Union
force was killed in an attack by suspected Islamist insurgents on Saturday.
�We have so far lost two soldiers and four others have been injured,�
Amisom Forces spokesman Maj. Barigye Ba-hoku said from Mogadishu last
evening.
�Our soldiers went to an observation post outside our defence positions
when an explosive device planted by the roadside went off, killing one of
our soldiers and wounding two others.�
Witnesses said the AU peacekeepers� vehicle was destroyed by the roadside
bomb and several of the soldiers retrieved from the wreckage, before the
area was sealed off. The explosives were hidden in sand dunes. As is the
practice in the military the identities of the dead cannot be released
until their relatives have been notified.
Since March 2007, a total of eight African Union peacekeepers have been
killed in Somalia. A Ugandan soldier serving with the African Union in
Somalia was on August 1 killed by a roadside bomb in Mogadishu.
The incident followed another similar attack in which three others were
killed. �Amisom once again condemns these acts of violence that undermine
the efforts of attaining peace through dialogue,� Maj. Ba-Hoku said.
�Amisom will not be deterred from fulfilling their mandate by these
callous attacks.� �Daily Monitor
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