4/18/10 - Landmine Attack Police Station - Mogadishu, Somalia
Sunday, April 18, 2010
10:13 PM
Claire Morcos
Labels: 04/10 , al-Shabaab , Landmine , Mogadishu , Somalia , 0 comments
Date: April 18th, 2010
Method: Landmine
Location: Near a police station in Mogadishu, Somalia
Death Toll: 5 civilians (&5 police officers)
Injury Toll: 20
Perpetrators: (Suspected) al-Shabaab
The Associated Press reports:
Ali Gab, a Somali police official said that five of his fellow police officers were killed in the attack. He blamed the militant group al-Shabab for the attack.
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The weak U.N.-backed Somali government is battling an Islamist insurgency. The impoverished Horn of Africa nation has not had a functioning government for nearly 20 years.
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