(SomaliNet) Five people, four of them government soldiers died and three others were wounded in a huge explosion which occurred on Friday near the main seaport in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia. According to local witnesses, the blast which happened around 10:00 am local time was caused by a roadside bomb on a car carrying government policemen. Among the dead people was a ten year-old boy who was severely cut by the explosion and was beyond recognition while the wounded were civilians who were walking alongside the road in time of explosion. | Gee, Lebanon cools off and Somalia hots up again. It's almost like there's a .... plan or somethin'. |
Investigations over the latest bomb explosion is now underway as government soldiers began house to house search in the villages near the port which is heavily guarded by the African Union peacekeepers from Uganda. No one was reported to have been arrested for the attack and no group has claimed responsibility so far. "I have heard a huge and load explosion, I saw ahead of me a car carrying police men that went up by roadside bomb," said one eye witness who asked not to be mentioned. The latest bomb attack followed last nightÂ’s explosion in Hodan neighborhood, south of the capital killing one civilian.
Meanwhile, on Friday the Transitional Federal Government imposed a dusk to dawn curfew on the capital Mogadishu following escalation of violence in the city. The TFG blamed all these acts of violence on the local insurgents who had recently been defeated by the Ethiopian forces in weeks of non-stop heavy street battle which killed hundreds of people mostly civilians and made thousands of people displace their houses in the capital. |