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Mortar rounds slammed into a market in Somalia’s capital Monday, killing up to 30 people including children and overwhelming hospitals with dozens of wounded in the worst fighting in months, witnesses said.
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A Somali checks a dead body in a hospital in Mogadishu, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2008. Witnesses and doctors say an overnight attack by Islamic insurgents has killed at least 11 civilians and wounded nearly 40 in the Somali capital. Several Mogadishu...
