(SomaliNet) At least one civilian has been killed and three others were wounded in the Somalia capital Mogadishu on late Monday when a bomb exploded in market, north of the capital – as Mogadishu plunged into waves of violence. A gunman has reportedly thrown a hand grenade bomb into a restaurant where several people were having dinner, witnesses told Somalinet. The body of Ahmed Haji Abdi Gobe and the three injured were taken away from the site of explosion. The attacker was thought to be belonging the insurgents of the Islamist’s supporters that vowed to continue hit and run attacks against what they called ‘the foreign invaders’ until they withdraw from the country. Shortly after the explosion, the attacker has again left a plastic sack full of explosives at the Four Garden junction in Yaqshid neighborhood, north of Mogadishu. The explosives were were meant to be a booby-trap aimed at the police vehicles passing there but the plan fell apart after local residents saw the man was was planting the device and shouted at him. The man drew a pistol pointing at the people and ran off.
Recent days, Somali insurgent groups in the Somalia capital were conducting attacks against targets of the interim government forces and its Ethiopian troops. In some parts of the capital, supporters of the ousted Islamists are more active in organizing fresh attacks on the government and its outsiders.