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MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - A grenade attack in northeastern Somalia killed 21 people and wounded 100, officials said Wednesday, raising the toll a day after the explosion.
The grenade blew up Tuesday in a crowded residential neighborhood in Bossaso, a port town in the semiautonomous region of Puntland, officials said. At the time, authorities said 15 people had been killed and 50 wounded.
U.N. officials later provided updated figures showing that 21 people died and 100 were hurt, regional Gov. Muse Geele Yusuf said. Most were believed to be Ethiopians on their way to find work in the Arabian Peninsula, which lies across the Gulf of Aden, officials said.
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