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Somalia: Ethiopians kill six civilians
Sunday, 11 May 2008
Somalia: Ethiopian troops have detained a number of Somali civilians and killed six of them, in an operation in north Mogadishu, a report says.
Ethiopians soldiers detained more than 85 civilians including at least 20 women in a large-scale operation in Towfiq District in north Mogadishu.

They then tossed the bodies of six of the men out of their base, Press TV correspondent reported, Sunday.

The women, however, were released soon after the raid, the report said.

The killing has caused great apprehension among the people who are worried about the fate of their relatives captured by the soldiers.

There were no immediate comments from the Ethiopian army about the fate of the rest of the arrested people.

Meanwhile another report said, seventeen civilians were killed by the blast that was very heavy. We lost one of our soldiers," the commander told a reporter  on condition of anonymity.

He added that Ethiopian forces, who are supporting Somali troops, killed two insurgents suspected of planting the bomb.

A similar explosion, also in Baidoa, on last Monday killed four Ethiopian troops, sparking a retaliatory attack in which four civilians died.

Baidoa is 250 kilometres (155 miles) northwest of Mogadishu.Ethiopian troops came to Somalia to support its embattled transitional government in late 2006; the following year they defeated Islamist militants who had taken control of large parts south and central Somalia.

Remaining Islamist militia fighters have since waged a guerrilla campaign against the government as well as allied Ethiopian forces and African Union peacekeepers.
 
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