Mortar attack kills nine in Somali market

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Source: Reuters

Mortar attack kills nine in Somali market
13 Dec 2007 10:59:10 GMT

By Aweys Yusuf

MOGADISHU, Dec 13 (Reuters) - Mortar bombs killed at
least nine people in the Somali capital Mogadishu's busy
Bakara Market on Thursday in the latest attack blamed
on Islamist rebels, witnesses said.

"A mortar shell exploded inside Bakara, killing two women
and seven men. Several others were bleeding and lying
on the ground," Osman Abdulahi, a driver, told Reuters.

Bakara is the main place for residents to shop in
Somalia's capital, and is notorious for its open-air gun
market.

Conflict in Somalia has killed nearly 6,000 civilians in
Mogadishu this year forced some 720,000 others from
their homes, according to a local human rights group.

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