MOGADISHU, Somalia, March 26, SPA -- More than 100 heavily armed insurgents briefly seized control of a major agriculturaltown in southern Somalia on Wednesday in a surprise attackthat killed at least seven people, residents and officialssaid. The insurgents, firing rocket-propelled grenades andmachine-guns, overpowered government soldiers and releasedan unknown number of prisoners in the dawn attack onJowhar, 90 kilometers (56 miles) north of the capital,residents said. The attackers withdrew from Jowhar later in the morning, the Associated Press reported.--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/540055
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