Mortar assault kills some at AU

A mortar shell damaged into an African Union peacekeeping task base in Mogadishu Monday, killing a number of people, as well as a fighter, officials on the base said. An 82-mm mortar surrounding struck a secondary entrance to the AMISOM's main Mogadishu base, ripping throughout an area where dozens of Somali civilians queue up every day to receive treatment from the mission's doctors, an official said on situation of anonymity.

According to an official with AMISOM's Ugandan contingent, one Ugandan fighter was killed in the assault. The force's spokesman, Ba-Hoku Barigye, definite the incident but could not give an accurate death toll."A blast took place at one of the base's entrances, it appears a few Somalis were killed," he said.

The hard line Islamist insurgent group Shebab, an organization whose head recently proclaimed allegiance to Al-Qaeda supremo Osama bin Laden and their allies from the more political Hezb al Islam movement regularly fire mortar shells on the base. They launched a violent military offensive in May 2009 aimed at toppling globally backed President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, whose besieged administration has owed its survival largely to the protection of AMISOM's 5,300 peacekeepers.

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