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Somalia: Mogadishu insurgency intensifies as civilian casualty increases
Tue. August 14, 2007 09:17 am.- By Mohamed Abdi Farah. -
(SomaliNet) Three people were wounded in a grenade explosion which occurred in Mogadishu’s biggest Bakara market on Tuesday – as insurgency violence escalates in the city day by day.
Witnesses told Somalinet that a local militant carried out the attack around 12:00pm aiming to kill three soldiers who were walking inside the market. The explosion wounded three vendors who were selling wrist watches.
No casualty was reported on the soldiers who opened fire after the incident. The security forces rushed to area and sealed off all roads to investigate who was behind the attack.
All shops around the scene of the explosion were closed.
Meanwhile, eight people have died from wounds in Medina hospital, south of the Somalia capital Mogadishu in the past 12 hours, medical sources said.
These deceased were among 23 people who have been injured in yesterday’s shootout when the Ethiopian forces opened indiscriminate fire on travelers’ bus in north of the capital. The bus that covered by blood was heading the central Somalia regions.
The shootout came when an explosion happened near Ethiopian soldiers who were taking water from a well in the area.
The latest death toll brings 19 to the civilians killed in Mogadishu yesterday alone as more than 30 others were wounded.
The government did not yet give comment about the civilian casualty resulted from the bullets sprayed by the alleged Ethiopian forces.
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