Monday, August 27, 2007
Col. Abdi Wahid said a second man who attacked the police station in southern Mogadishu escaped. One officer was wounded in the incident, he said.
In a separate incident, a hand grenade was thrown at a hotel in southern Mogadishu on Sunday evening, where delegates were attending the national reconciliation conference.
"It hit at the generator, wounding a delegate who was standing nearby," said Hamarweyne district police commissionar Abdulahi Sahal Gardhub.
The Somalian capital is increasingly caught up in a guerrilla war between the government and its Ethiopian allies and Islamic insurgents. Grenade attacks are frequent, and thousands of civilians have been killed this year.
The Islamic militants vowed in December to conduct an Iraq-style insurgency after they were toppled by Ethiopian troops supporting Somalia's U.N.-backed transitional government. Somalia has been mired in chaos since 1991, when warlords overthrew dictator Mohamed Siad Barre and then turned on each other.
Source: AP, Aug 27, 2007