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Somalia’s Higher Education Ministry in the centre of the capital Mogadishu was hit by a large explosion followed by heavy gunfire.
Al Jazeera’s Mustaf Abdi Nor Shafana, reporting from the scene, said he counted the bodies of eight civilians and two soldiers after Tuesday’s assault.
A SPLA-N rebel soldier, in South Kordofan (AFP)
The rebel Sudanese People’s Liberation Movement/North (SPLM-N) launched rocket attack on Dilling town in South Kordofan state in conjunction with the start of voting in the general elections.
In March, SPLM-N general chief of staff, Abdel Aziz Adam el-Hilu, announced a campaign to sabotage elections in South Kordofan state. Last week, the SPLM-N said it has seized a vehicle loaded with ballot boxes in the state.
Two separate bomb attacks targeting security forces in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula killed at least 13 people and wounded dozens on Sunday, the latest in a wave of violence in a region hit by an Islamist insurgency.
Egypt’s military said a roadside bomb detonated by militants killed six soldiers and wounded two others in an attack on an armored military vehicle in the town of Sheikh Zuweid. Two of those killed were officers, it said.
Naxals attacked a BSF team killing a jawan in Chhattisgarh’s insurgency-hit Kanker district, striking for the third time since Saturday.
Maoists fired indiscriminately on security personnel who were patrolling in the proximity of Chhote Baithiya BSF camp under Bande police station area late on Sunday night, Kanker Superintendent of Police Jitendra Singh Meena told PTI.
About 50 militants of al-Qaeda’s Indian branch, including two senior leaders, have been killed in US drone strikes over the past few months, the outfit said on Sunday.
The al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) says a series of drone attacks have killed nearly 50 of its members, including deputy head Ustad Ahmad Farooq and Qari Imran, the group’s central council member and in charge of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan.