(SomaliNet) Iraq-style roadside explosion and gunfire killed two soldiers and nine civilians, and wounded eighteen others in north of the Somalia capital Mogadishu on Monday afternoon, residents said. It is the bloodiest event seen in Mogadishu over the past weeks.
Local insurgents have carried the roadside bomb targeting a government vehicle passing Suuqa Xoolaha environ of Huriwa district in north of the city killing two soldiers. The Ethiopian forces who were taking water from a well nearby the area of the blast opened fire indiscriminately killing nine civilians. Six of the victims were traveling on a bus that was heading to the central regions of Somalia. This brings to seventeen to the people killed in Mogadishu today alone as the wounded surpasses sixteen. Some reports say after the explosion the government exchanged gunfire with the local insurgents. |