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Summary
At least 20 people were killed and 60 others wounded in shelling in the Somali capital. Islamic insurgents attacked a building in the Somali capital where parliament was meeting for the first time this year the militants pounded the area with mortars. According to reports no lawmakers were killed or wounded during the attack, Most of those killed were civilians. Previous sessions of parliament had been postponed since December because of threats from al-Shabab, an al-Qaida-linked militant group in the lawless Horn of Africa nation. A number of lawmakers have fled the 550-member parliament in Mogadishu and resettled in neighboring countries because of insecurity.It is pertinent to note that Somali forces have been battling Al-Shabaab, the al Qaeda proxy in the country. The militants are waging a war against the government in an effort to implement a stricter form of Islamic law, or sharia.
