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 MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Mortar rounds and rockets slammed into Somalia's capital early Monday in a series of attacks that killed a 6-year-old boy and his father as they slept and wounded at least seven people, witnesses said.
The violence, which hit residential areas as well as the presidential palace, a radio station and a police station, was among the worst since Somalia's government moved into the capital late last year. Somali troops, with the help of soldiers from neighboring Ethiopia, drove out a radical Islamic militia known as the Council of Islamic Courts.
"We were sleeping when a heavy explosion rocked our house. It landed on the roof of our balcony," said Shamsa Ahmed, whose father and brother were killed in the mortar attack. Four others were wounded.
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