WORLD BRIEFING / SOMALIA
Times Wire Reports
Somali government forces attacked rebel strongholds in Mogadishu, triggering battles that killed at least 17 people, including the capital’s police chief, witnesses and officials said.
Police spokesman Col. Abdullahi Hassan Barise said Police Chief Col. Ali Said died in the fighting, but was unable to provide details about how that had happened. Said had led the capital’s police force for about two years.
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