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 Somali militants attack peacekeepers. Somali Islamist militants unleashed an attack on peacekeepers sparking fighting that resulted in the deaths of 17 civilians Wednesday. According to witnesses the violence was ground shaking. “The fighting was so heavy it shook the ground under our feet. Both sides were using heavy artillery – including tanks used by the AU,” said a Somali cameraman, adding that it was the most violent fighting he’d seen between the two forces. The militia, Al-Shaabab, recently stepped up attacks against African Union peacekeepers. Fighting earlier this week killed at least 33 civilians. An AU spokesman accused the militia of trying to draw them into a war, when they are only there to keep peace. They were “intended to draw [AU] into direct armed confrontation with the opposition forces, and therefore appear to be involved directly in the conflict…We refuse to be drawn into this senseless war,” the spokesman, Maj. Barigye Ba-Hoku, said in a statement.  Al-Shaabab has also been launching attacks against Ethiopian troops who are in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu helping to stabilize the government. Ever since Somali dictator Mohamed Siad Barre was overthrown in 1991, the government has been unstable.

S.A. couple killed while having sex on a train track. In South Africa, a train ran over and killed two people having sex on the track, reports the BBC. The incident took place late last week at a train station in Kinross. The victims have not been identified yet. The couple apparently had ignored warnings from the train driver as he was getting closer, police spokesman Abie Khoabane told local media. “They continued with their business,” he said. The area was deserted at the time of the accident. The man passed away at the scene of the accident and the woman died at the hospital later. Police are asking for anyone who has relatives that might have recently gone missing to help with their investigation.