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CNN
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
(CNN) -- Powerful explosions -- including a car bomb --
struck government buildings and a United Nations compound in a Somali
breakaway republic Wednesday, killing at least 56 people, officials and
witnesses said.
A vehicle forced its way into the U.N.
Development Program compound in Hargeisa, the capital of autonomous
region Somaliland, causing a blast that resulted in an unknown number
of injuries and deaths, the U.N. said in a statement.
Another 50
people were killed in blasts at the Ethiopian Embassy, the presidential
palace and the election headquarters in Hargeisa, the capital of
Somaliland located in northern Somalia, according to a hospital nurse.
A long line of people had queued up for entry visas at the Embassy when the explosions occurred.
Meanwhile, in the port city of Bossaso, suicide bombers targeted
anti-terror officers, killing at least six people, including four of
the officers, a witness at the scene said.
Bossaso is in Puntland -- a state in northern Somalia known for its lawlessness, including kidnappings and piracy.
SOURCE: CNN,Wednesday, October 29, 2008