Shelling 'kills Somali civilians'

Source: BBC

Mogadishu : Somalia | about 1 month ago

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The fighting began when Islamist insurgents fired mortars at the presidential palace as the president was leaving for a conference in Uganda. African Union peacekeepers and government troops responded by shelling insurgent strongholds of Mogadishu's main market and residential areas.

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