At least 11 killed in assassination attempt on Somali president

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At least 11 people, including six alleged assailants, have been killed in an unsuccessful bid to assassinate Somalia's interim president, the country's foreign minister said.

In an attack blamed on those responsible for the weekend murder of an Italian nun in Mogadishu, five members of President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed's entourage and six purported assassins died in powerful blasts that rocked the town of Baidoa, the minister said Monday.

Yusuf was unhurt in the incident but his younger brother, Abdulsalam Yusuf Ahmed, was among those killed, Foreign Minister Ismail Mohamed Hurre told reporters in the Kenyan capital where he is on an official visit.

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