Saturday, August 1, 2009

Roadside bomb misses government official

BALADWEYNE(TF.SF)—A roadside bomb has missed a car of a government official in Beledweyne town in central Somalia, officials said on Saturday. The bomb slightly damaged the car of Moalim Aden Abdisalan , a Somali government official in charge of awareness programs in Beledweyne town in central Somalia. Moalin Aden told reporters that the bomb wounded a girl who was passing near the place where the bomb went off. Beledweyne is a strategic town in central Somalia. the Islamist forces vacated the town last week after more government soldiers were deployed in the city . HAWIYE WING OF AL-SHABAB group has claimed the responsibility of the attack, but such attacks are the work of al Shabab militants who claimed the suicide attack which killed Late security minister Omar Hashi Aden and former Somali ambassador to Ethiopia Abkarin Farah Laqanyo in June this year.

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