World IN BRIEF : SOMALIA : 3 Gunmen Slain in Attack on U.N. Base
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A U.S. Cobra helicopter killed three gunmen with cannon fire after a U.N. base came under grenade attack, U.N. forces in Mogadishu said. At least eight rocket-propelled grenades were fired during the night at Hunter Base, a U.N. military compound. Pakistani sentries returned small-arms fire, joined by a Cobra that killed a lone gunman with a rocket launcher on a nearby building. Minutes later, the helicopter came under fire, and it destroyed an armored vehicle, killing the two occupants.
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