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October 04, 2011

Toronto Star: Bomb blast in Somalia targets students

by Michelle Shephard
The Toronto Star

A massive truck bomb in Mogadishu killed dozens of students Tuesday, shattering an uneasy calm in the country’s capital and fulfilling the threat made by Shabab militants of a return to guerrilla warfare.

The Tuesday-morning bombing at a busy intersection outside the Education Ministry reportedly killed more than 60 people, many of them students who had come to apply for foreign scholarships.

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