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23 reported killed in militia attack in Mogadishu

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    Militiamen of Hussein Aideed's Habr Gedir clan were on Tuesday alleged to have killed at least 23 people and wounded 30 more during attacks on a bus and a lorry in the Huriwa district of south Mogadishu, AFP news agency reported on Wednesday. Twenty-one people were reported to have died after an armed gang opened fire on a bus travelling from Mogadishu to Elade village in Lower Shabelle, and another two when the same gunmen later shot
    at a lorry in the same area, it said, adding that the incident was believed to have been an attack on the Abgal clan grouping in retaliation for an alleged theft of a bus from Habr Gedir gunmen by Abgal rivals.

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