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| Africa: Horn |
| Aid workers targeted in Somalia |
| 2005-04-20 |
| Two people were injured, one of them seriously, when unidentified men threw a hand-grenade into a childrens hospital in Somali capital Mogadishu at midday on Tuesday, hospital staff said. One of the injured, a doctor, who was taken to another hospital, said he did not know the attackers. "I saw the grenade coming toward us, and then it exploded'', he said. The hospital, managed by the Austrian SOS organization, is located near a kindergarten run by the same group. None of the more than 2,000 children were injured. An employee at the hospital, Fadumo Hassan Hamud, told Deutsche Presse Agentur dpa that "we dont have another hospital (for children) in Mogadishu, if they ambush and close SOS our children will be without a hospital''. The grenade attack follows a shooting Monday, in which a woman working for a Scandinavian aid group, IAS, was shot dead by gunmen after the organization had been accused of trying to "Christianize'' Somali youth. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #1 Why anyone outside of Somalia's crazed inhabitants are in that country is beyond me. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2005-04-20 8:16:49 AM |