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Insurgents kill top police officer in Somalia

The Daily Star "MOGADISHU: Suspected Islamist insurgents killed a top Somali police officer in Mogadishu, a police spokesman said Tuesday. Armed men shot dead General Abdi Kahiye Farah - the head of Mogadishu's police academy - late Monday in a district south of the capital as he headed home. 'He was a great hero we lost,' police spokesman Abdullahi Omar Ibrahim told reporters."

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