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MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - An assailant threw a hand grenade at a top Somali military officer in Mogadishu on Wednesday, but missed the official and killed a civilian and wounded two government soldiers instead, police said.
At least three other people died and 13 suffered wounds from violence in or near the capital of this Horn of Africa nation, where a U.N.-backed government is struggling to impose control after 16 years of anarchy and clan fighting that followed the ouster of a dictatorship.
Three men armed with pistols fired into the air then fatally shot two civilians at Mogadishu's Bakara market before spraying bullets to cover their escape, businessman Abdi Haji Dalel said.
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