SOMALI and African Union soldiers have regained control of a United Nations compound in Mogadishu ending an hour and an half attack by al-Qaeda linked Shebab insurgents, police and witnesses say.
"The situation is under control now... Somali soldiers along with African Union forces stormed the compound and killed the attackers," said Somali police official Abdulahi Osman.
He said that at least three civilians were killed outside the compound in Wednesday's attack but that there were no initial reports of UN casualties.
The compound under attack lies just across the street from the secure airport complex, where African Union forces are based.
The UN compound is used by agencies like UNICEF, WHO and UNDP.
The top UN official on Somalia, Nicholas Kay, also works out of the building. He was not inside the compound when it was attacked and is safe inside the airport compound, one of the UN officials said.
Mogadishu fell into anarchy in 1991 and is just beginning to move past years of sustained conflict.
The UN and foreign embassies were absent from Mogadishu for close to two decades.
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