9 Killed in Attack on Legislative Entourage
From Times Wire Reports
Militia gunmen attacked government forces escorting Somalia’s parliament speaker and other officials, killing at least nine soldiers and wounding dozens, witnesses said. The fate of the officials was unknown. More than 200 Rahanwein Resistance Army gunmen ambushed speaker Abdalla Derow Issak’s entourage as it was traveling in a militia-controlled region about 185 miles northwest of the capital, Mogadishu.
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