(SomaliNet) Hours after rejecting a U.N.-brokered peace deal for the Horn of Africa nation, Somali insurgents killed five officers and one civilian in an attack on a Mogadishu police base, witnesses said. Sources say that attack, and two other insurgent killings in Baidoa and Mogadishu, brought to about 40 the number killed in an increase in fighting since the weekend between allied Ethiopian-Somali security forces and Islamist-led insurgents.
Five bodies lay in the street after insurgents opened fire on Tuesday night at a police base -- a typical attack in an Iraq-style campaign of hit-and-run raids, bombs and assassinations, witnesses said. Somali Police confirmed the other fatality in that incident.