Muqdisho - Islamist militants rammed a car bomb into a police compound north of Somalia’s capital yesterday and opened fire on officers, leaving seven civilians, 10 militants and 11 police officers dead, officials and witnesses said.
Al Shabaab – the al-Qaeda-linked group that claimed responsibility for a deadly raid on a shopping mall in Kenya in September – said it carried out the assault.
African Union peacekeepers and Somali troops surrounded the compound and opened fire. Witnesses said the shooting inside then stopped.
Times of Malta
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