Cheering crowds welcome Somali PM Gedi to Mogadishu

MOGADISHU, Dec 29 (Reuters) Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohamad Gedi entered Mogadishu as hundreds of residents lined the streets today, a day after Islamist rivals fled, witnesses said.

The interim government's premier drove into the bullet-scarred capital in a 22-car convoy that included six ''technicals'' -- pick-up trucks mounted with heavy weaponry --, a Reuters witness travelling with Gedi said.

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