From: Biniam Tekle (biniamt@dehai.org)
Date: Wed Oct 29 2008 - 07:44:00 EST
October 29 2008 at 01:44PM
*Bombers target presidency office *
Nairobi - The presidential palace was one of three targets in simultaneous
suicide car bomb attacks on Wednesday in Hargeysa, the capital of the
northern Somali breakaway state of Somaliland, police said.
"The office of the president was among the three positions targeted by
terrorists," a senior police officer said by telephone from Hargeysa on
condition of anonymity.
"A senior officer in the office of the president was killed in the attack
which was carried out by a suicide bomber," he said.
It was not immediately clear if Somaliland President Dahir Rayale Kahin was
in his office at the time of the attack but officials said he was safe.
The United Nations Development Programme's compound and the Ethiopian
embassy, all in the same neighbourhood, were also targeted.
Two suicide car attacks targeted two anti-terrorism centres in Bossaso, the
economic capital of the neighbouring breakaway state of Puntland, at almost
the same time.
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