Tuesday, January 24, 2012
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Witnesses say that a truck bomb has detonated at an Ethiopian military base inside Somalia.
Shopkeeper Abdullahi Ali said Tuesday that he saw a truck with the back covered in black cloth or tarpaulin speeding toward the base in the town of Beledweyne and then heard a large explosion.
Resident Ali Hussein says he can see smoke rising from the base but that Ethiopian troops have cordoned off the area and the extent of casualties are unclear.
The number of dead or injured from Tuesday morning's bombing may never be known. The Ethiopian military never discloses such figures.
Large numbers of Ethiopians entered Somalia last month to help the weak U.N.-backed government defeat al-Qaida-linked insurgents. Beledweyne is near the two countries' joint border.
Source: AP