injured other civilians,” the
spokesman said. The deceased tried to block the vehicle from
passing through the entrance of the administrative capital
located near the main Bakara market.

The blast has also
destroyed the building of the district and nearby school where
several children were injured. Witnesses said the blast was
huge.

“We heard huge blast
at Howlwadag district and learnt that children at school were
hurt in the blast,” an eye witness, Ismail Abdulle, told Xinhua.

The militant group
al-Shabab has claimed responsibility for the latest attack but
did not say the number of the casualties.

Independent sources
told Xinhua tht at least six children were wounded in the
incident which is the latest in a series of terror incidences in
the Horn of African nation.

Pictures from the
scene show massive destruction of buildings.

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Somalia president
in Djibouti to shore up bilateral ties

MOGADISHU Somalia (Xinhua) -- Somaliwhat
was perceived as a high concentration of land ownership by a handful of private
landowners. Sugar companies and royal estates had given away to land trusts
that owned enormous portions of the islands. This form of land ownership went
all the way back to the days of the Hawaiian Kingdom in the 1840s.

Over the years, most regular homeowners did not own the homes
they lived in. Instead, they had long leases. This, apparently, was simply
un-American and the Legislature set out to remedy this problem.

It decided to implement a dramatic and arguably revolutionary
form of land reform. It created the Hawaii Housing Authority. The HHA received
petitions from leaseholders and, once it determined if it was in the public
interest, had the power to condemn portions of land, cut it up into smaller
lots, and redistribute them.

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