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| Three people slain in Mogadishu |
| 2007-07-21 |
| (SomaliNet) Three persons have been separately killed in the Somalia capital Mogadishu overnight as lack of security increases to its highest level, sources say on Friday. Two of the killed people were men while the other was a woman. Unknown local armed men carried out the killings. One of the men was shot dead by gunmen in Aymiska village in Yaqshid district, north of the capital while the rest two people, one of whom a woman were killed around former cigarette and match factory in the city. It is not yet clear why these people were slain but the security forces began investigations over the killings. But earlier the local Islamist militants vowed to kill anyone whose ambition is to take part in the reconciliation congress, which restarted in Mogadishu on Thursday. Insecurity has mounted in the Somalia capital since the Islamic Courts Union, which had been controlling much of southern and central Somalia for six months, was overpowered by the Ethiopian forces backing the transitional federal government late December 2006. |
| Posted by:Fred |