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More Than 20 Killed in Somalia After Discarded Mortar Shell Explodes

HeadlineJun 12, 2023

In Somalia, over 20 people, most of them children and teens, were killed Friday in a southern town after an unexploded mortar shell detonated near where the victims were playing. More than 50 people were injured in the blast. Another six people were killed Saturday during a six-hour siege of a beachside hotel by the armed group al-Shabab in the capital Mogadishu.

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