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Suicide car bomber kills 7 in Somalia, residents flee
Sun May 24, 2009 5:17pm EDT
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MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed six policemen and a civilian on Sunday in Somalia's capital and hardline Islamist insurgents warned more suicide attacks would target pro-government forces in the coming days.
Abdifatah Shaweye, deputy governor of Mogadishu, said the bomber drove a 4x4 vehicle to the gate of a police headquarters and detonated it by the guards.
"Four died on the spot, two others died of serious injuries, and one civilian (died)," a police commander, who asked not to be named, told Reuters.
An upsurge in violence this month has killed nearly 200 people in Mogadishu and forced some 60,000 residents from their homes. At least 53 people have died since Friday morning, when the government attacked rebel strongholds in the city.
Neighboring states and Western governments fear Somalia, which has been mired in civil war for 18 years, could become a base for militants linked to al Qaeda and destabilize the region, unless the new government can defeat them.
The chaos onshore has also allowed piracy to flourish off Somalia's coast and foreign navies are now patrolling the busy shipping lanes to try to curb attacks.
Islamist insurgent group al Shabaab, which Washington says has links to Osama bin Laden, has been spearheading the rebel offensive with allied guerrilla group Hizbul Islam. They stepped up attacks in the capital early in May.
"Abdikadir Mohamed Hasan of our Mujahideen carried out the suicide car bomb," Sheik Husein Ali Fidow, a senior al Shabaab official told reporters in a news conference via phone.
"It was committed by a young Somalia boy born in Mogadishu. More suicide car bombs are on the way coming hours, days and months," he said.
FLEEING VIOLENCE
The United Nations says hundreds of foreign fighters have joined the rebels and an influential opposition leader told Reuters on Friday some Arabs had come to Somalia to wage holy war against the Western-backed government.
Security sources say the hardline Islamist insurgents have been planting more sophisticated roadside bombs in recent months and Iraq-style suicide attacks have become more frequent.
On Sunday morning, more Mogadishu residents took advantage of a lull in the fighting to grab some belongings and flee to sprawling refugee camps outside the crumbling city.
A young woman wearing a bright blue headscarf trudged along a dusty road with a bed mat and mattress strapped to her back and a cooking pot and kerosene lamp hanging from her arms. A woman clutching a plastic bag and a small suitcase followed.
"I call on the international community and the aid agencies to react very urgently to the worsening humanitarian situation in Somalia," Mohamud Abdi Ibrahim, Minister for Humanitarian Affairs, told reporters on Sunday. Continued...
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