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Roadside bomb kills 3 civilians in Somalia
A roadside bomb killed three civilians and wounded five others on Saturday in an attack apparently meant for a passing convoy of Ethiopian troops in Somalia's war-battered capital, witnesses said.
- Agencies
- Published: 15:51 February 23, 2008
Mogadishu: A roadside bomb killed three civilians and wounded five others on Saturday in an attack apparently meant for a passing convoy of Ethiopian troops in Somalia's war-battered capital, witnesses said.
Among the dead were two sisters who ran a shop near the site of the explosion, he said. Another witness said he saw five others with serious injuries, one of them a student.
Thousands of people were killed last year in Somalia, many of them caught in the crossfire as Islamic insurgents battle government troops and their Ethiopian allies.
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