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April 20, 2015

Somalia: Al-Shabab Kills 9 in Attack on U.N. Van 
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In Somalia, the militant group al-Shabab has killed nine people in a
bomb attack on a van carrying workers to a United Nations office in the
region of Puntland. The dead include four staff members from UNICEF. It
was the third deadly attack by al-Shabab on foreign personnel in three
days, following earlier attacks on African Union peacekeepers and a
Kenyan convoy.