Monday, August 27, 2007
Police blamed Islamist insurgents for the attacks.
The two teenagers died in a blast in south Mogadishu near a school attended by hundreds of children, the school`s director Mohamed Ahmed Farah said. Sunday is a school day in the majority Muslim Horn of Africa nation, where government troops and their Ethiopian allies are fighting Islamic insurgents who vowed to conduct an Iraq-style insurgency after they were ousted by an Ethiopian-led invasion in December.
"They plant bombs among the civilians," police spokesman Col. Abdi Wahid said of the insurgents, calling the tactic "barbaric."
A man wounded in the blast died at a hospital.
A grenade attack on police officers killed a civilian and wounded four people, three of them police, in a northeastern neighborhood of Mogadishu where the Islamists enjoy strong support, Wahid said.
Another grenade aimed at police near the city`s main market killed one person and wounded five, police spokesman Col. Abdi Shino said. Police arrested eight people, mainly youths, at a nearby Internet cafe in connection with the attack.
Human rights groups have accused all sides of regularly killing and injuring civilians. Thousands have been killed this year.
Source: Angola Press, Aug 27, 2007