Somalia airport attacked

A suicide car bomber and gunmen attacked the front gate of the airport into Mogadishu, Somalia, killing several people.

Photo by: Farah Abdi Warsameh

Two bodies lie in front of the Mogadishu airport gate Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010. A suicide car bomber and gunmen attacked the front gate to Mogadishu's seaside airport on Thursday, triggering an explosion and gunbattle, officials said. Several people were killed, including security forces. The coordinated attack was the latest in a surge of assaults by Islamist insurgents, who last month declared a new, stepped-up effort to oust the country's weak government. The barrage took place about 40 minutes after Somalia's president flew out of the country. After the car bomb exploded, a second vehicle full of militants opened fire at African Union and Somali security forces, said Osman Dahir, a police officer at the airport. He said there were several dead bodies of insurgents lying in front of the airport, but he didn't know how many.(AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

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