5 Guards Slain in Attack on Premier’s Convoy
Assailants threw grenades and a land mine exploded near a convoy carrying Somalia’s prime minister in Mogadishu, the capital, on Sunday, but he was unharmed. At least five bodyguards were killed, and 14 people were wounded.
Diplomats called the attack on Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Gedi’s convoy an attempt to wreck a fragile peace process.
Gedi had flown in from his headquarters north of Mogadishu to try to hold talks with dissident ministers to end a rift in the interim government that had stirred fears of a renewed civil war in the chaotic Horn of Africa nation.
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