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Gunmen Launch Deadly Attack On Somalia Courthouse

1,425 views · Published 15 April 2013 · 1:03 · Indexed 22 October 2026

Channel: Wrath0fKhan · 2013 · People & Blogs

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At least 19 people have been killed in bomb and gun attacks in the Somali capital, Mogadishu. Sixteen people, including 9 attackers, are believed to have died after gunmen stormed the city's main court buildings. Later a car bomb was detonated on the road to the airport, killing three, including two Turkish aid workers and the attacker. The BBC's Mohamed Ibrahim said the attack had damaged people's confidence just as the security situation was improving. 

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Somalia conflict: 'Foreigners' behind Mogadishu attacks (BBC, April 15, 2013):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-22153911
"Foreign fighters were involved in Sunday's bomb and gun attacks in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon has said. At least 29 people died in the suicide bombings at the main courts and near the airport, he said ... Local media reported that one of the suicide bombers was a Somali-Canadian, Mahad Ali Dhoore. He had detonated a car bomb on a road near the heavily-fortified airport ..."

Gunmen launch deadly attack on Somalia courthouse
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-22143503
"...BBC reporter Mohamed Ibrahim at the scene says armed intruders entered the court in the capital and began firing, after which there was an explosion. A gunfight followed as security forces exchanged fire with the attackers. Witnesses said at least one car bomb was used in the attack. "Armed men entered the court and then we heard a blast. Then they started opening fire," witness Hussein Ali, who works at the courts, told Reuters news agency..."

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