MOGADISHU, Somalia
Mogadishu's regional police chief Col. Ahmed Hassan Malin says
Monday's roadside bomb targeted a vehicle belonging to a government
official who defected from the insurgency. The official was not in
the car but the blast killed his driver and four other civilians in
south Mogadishu.
Journalist Abshir Abdi Ahmed at the Radio Voice of Democracy in
north Mogadishu says a separate mortar attack on the station killed
the station director's wife and two civilians. Seventeen people
were wounded.
The violence comes ahead of a planned offensive by the
government against the Islamist insurgency.
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