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Grenade attack on minibus reportedly kills six in Somalia

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Mogadishu  –   A rocket-propelled grenade was on Sunday launched on a civilian minibus in southern Somalia, killing six people, a family member of one of the victims according to a local report,said.

The attack occurred near Qoryoley in Lower Shebelle region late Saturday.

Most of the victims were farmers, said Qalid Ahmed, a family member of one of them.

The area is under the control of Somali and African Union troops, but al-Shabaab Islamist militants’ stage attacks there.

Officials declined to comment on the attack and on who might have carried it out.

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