Islamists raid Somali police station, at least 28 dead: witnesses
Source: Reuters
BY ABDI SHEIKH
MOGADISHU Tue Nov 19, 2013 9:10am EST
(Reuters) - Islamist militants rammed a car bomb into a police compound north of Somalia's capital on Tuesday and opened fire on officers, leaving at least 28 people dead, officials and witnesses said.
Al Shabaab - the al Qaeda-linked group that claimed responsibility for a deadly raid on a shopping mall in neighboring Kenya in September - said it carried out the morning assault.
Gunfire rang out at the police station in Baladweyne, near the border with Ethiopia, into the early afternoon as locals rushed for cover.
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Seven civilians, 10 militants and 11 police officers were killed, said Somali government spokesman Abdirahman Osman - figures that were confirmed by several people at the scene.
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