(SomaliNet) The combined forces of Somalia and Ethiopia Monday arrested two Islamist suspects in the Somalia capital Mogadishu after they carriesd out security operations in parts of Mogadishu. The operation came after receiving a tip off that two Islamist supporters were hiding in the capital. The news come as top Islamist leader Sheikh Sharif Sheik Ahmed has given himself up to the Kenyan government in Nairobi.
Witnesses told Somalinet that heavily armed Somalia-Ethiopian forces have began house to house search for weapons and explosives in Suqa Holaha (Market of livestock) neighborhood in north of the capital Mogadishu early this morning.
The Ethiopians have deserted the environs after they took the suspects and searched several houses for guns. During their raid, the allied caught two suspects from a house in the area after unidentified assailant fired gunshot at the Ethiopian forces. The troops responded with fire in return of the gunshot as the assailant ran away from the scene. At least one person was hurt in the crossfire.
Two weeks ago, the Somalia president Abdulahi Yusuf Ahmed said that Mogadishu is infested with the remnants of Islamic Courts Union, which ousted by the allied forces, Ethiopian and government troops, on late December last year in two-week gun battle.