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Bomb kills 4 Ugandan peacekeepers in Somalia

Remote-controlled bomb killed four African Union peacekeepers from Uganda and a civilian on Wednesday in the Somali capital, in the kind of Iraq-style attack threatened by militant Islamist insurgents.

Five peacekeepers and two children were also wounded in the attack on an AU convoy, which an AU security source said was the first of its kind against the 1,600-strong Ugandan contingent -- who had previously only been shot at.
"We lost four and five were wounded. It was a roadside bomb and its intention was to hit peacekeepers," AU mission spokesman Captain Paddy Ankunda said of the bomb near the city's old port.

The injured soldiers will be evacuated to Uganda's capital Kampala. "Some of them are seriously wounded," Ankunda said.
Suspicion immediately fell on Islamist insurgents who have waged a guerrilla campaign in the capital since the interim government and its Ethiopian allies seized control of the city from them in late December.

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/05/16/somalia.conflict.reut/index.html

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