SOMALI NRA Members Clash with TFG
Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 8:44 am
Somali National Rifle Association members clashed with the TFG soldiers at the Presidential Palace.
Chairman Maxamed Qanyare was unharmed from the incident.
The Somali NRA condemns the TFG for provoking its members with threats of disarmament.
AbdiWahab Ahmed Ali, Somali NRA Spokesperson.
Somalia: Six people killed at the presidential palace in Mogadishu
Aweys Osman Yusuf
Mogadishu 12, Jan.07 ( Sh.M.Network) -Heavy gunfire exchange took place at the presidential palace, Villa Somalia, in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Friday morning.
Witnesses told Shabelle that they could see bullets hitting the concrete wall of the palace.
Somali president Abdulahi Yusuf has been staying in Villa Somalia for the forth day since he arrived the capital for the first time after he was elected as a president in late 2004.
Reliable sources have confirmed to Shabelle that six militias were killed, while three others were wounded in the fight.
The sources said armed militias guarding one of the Somali warlords meeting with the president at the Villa and the government soldiers on guard of the area clashed after they argued over moving the militias battlewagon parked before the main entrance of the presidential palace.
Chairman Maxamed Qanyare was unharmed from the incident.
The Somali NRA condemns the TFG for provoking its members with threats of disarmament.
AbdiWahab Ahmed Ali, Somali NRA Spokesperson.
Somalia: Six people killed at the presidential palace in Mogadishu
Aweys Osman Yusuf
Mogadishu 12, Jan.07 ( Sh.M.Network) -Heavy gunfire exchange took place at the presidential palace, Villa Somalia, in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Friday morning.
Witnesses told Shabelle that they could see bullets hitting the concrete wall of the palace.
Somali president Abdulahi Yusuf has been staying in Villa Somalia for the forth day since he arrived the capital for the first time after he was elected as a president in late 2004.
Reliable sources have confirmed to Shabelle that six militias were killed, while three others were wounded in the fight.
The sources said armed militias guarding one of the Somali warlords meeting with the president at the Villa and the government soldiers on guard of the area clashed after they argued over moving the militias battlewagon parked before the main entrance of the presidential palace.