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Witnesses report 26 dead in latest airstrikes in Somalia

Jan 10, 2007, 11:54 GMT

Mogadishu/Nairobi - Witnesses reported Wednesday that many people had been killed in the latest airstrikes in Somalia. 'At least 26 people were killed. The majority of them were cattle drovers,' said Khalif Sauid Hussein, a pharmacist in Afmadow on the Kenyan border. 'The explosions shook the whole village.' The explosions took place Tuesday, and it was not yet clear whether the attacking planes were from the US or Ethiopia. US fighter jets bombed several suspected terrorist hide-outs in the south of Somalia on Monday. A source in the Somali government said that some 30 people died in Monday's airstrikes. Unconfirmed reports said that a leading al-Qaeda terrorist was among the victims. In other news, three people, some of them civilians, were killed in an attack on an Ethiopian military base in Mogadishu Tuesday evening, according to witnesses. Unknown assailants had attacked the base in the south of the city with mortars. A gun fight had ensued. On Sunday in a similar incident, three other people were killed. Observers fear that the Islamic militants that were recently driven out of the Somali capital have not yet been defeated, but are continuing to launch attacks against the interim government and its Ethiopian allies. © 2007 dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur

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