Monday, May 05, 2008
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MOGADISHU (AFP) — At least five demonstrators were killed Monday when Somali security forces fired at crowds protesting rising food prices in the capital Mogadishu, witnesses said.
"Police opened fire at civilians who were closing in on a police station (and) killed two demonstrators, including a young boy in Dharkiley area," Farah Mohamed Abdi told AFP.
Another witness, Osman Mukhtar, said police shot two other civilians at a checkpoint in the Waberi area when they responded to grenade attack, bringing the total death toll to five from the demonstrations after another death was reported earlier.
"Several people were wounded in Waberi area," Mukhtar added.
Source: AFP, May 05, 2008