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Attackers fire grenades at Mogadishu police station

MOGADISHU, Feb 11 (Reuters) Unknown assailants fired rocket-propelled grenades at a police station in the Somali capital Mogadishu today, triggering a gun battle with security forces, residents said.

''I heard three big grenade blasts at Madina Police Station, then gunfire erupted,'' said one local man who gave his name as Abdikarim.

REUTERS DKS BST0110

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