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Aid workers die in Somali blast | Aid workers die in Somali blast |
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Five people including two foreign aid workers have been killed in a blast in the southern Somali port of Kismayo. | |
Three of the five - a Kenyan doctor, a French logistics expert and a Somali driver - worked for the Dutch branch of aid agency Medicins Sans Frontieres. | |
A Somali boy and a reporter were also killed by the roadside bomb. | |
It is not yet clear who was behind the blast but police say they have made one arrest. Fighting between rival clans has increased in Kismayo recently. | |
Government buildings and Ethiopian troops in the port city have been attacked. | |
Somalia has been fragmented since 1991, and the interim government depends on foreign aid and Ethiopian military support. | |
The BBC's Mohammed Olad Hassan in the capital, Mogadishu, says the four were killed as they were returning to their residence from the hospital. | |
Kismayo has been relatively quiet compared with Mogadishu, but Islamist insurgents have threatened attacks there. | |
Following fierce clashes last year between insurgents and government officials, many Mogadishu residents have fled the city for other parts of the country. | |
But our correspondent says there is some hope of progress under new Prime Minister Nur Adde. | |
His government on Monday freed elders from the Hawiye clan - the largest in Mogadishu. | |
Some Hawiye gunmen have fought with the insurgents. |